https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22419-shape-shift-with-me/
This review describes the album as made up of more breakup songs than love songs, contrary to what it seems on the surface. Unlike any of the other reviews, this one describes how even the cover art contributes to the album’s feelings of loneliness and “loving in absence.” On the cover is a crouching figure licking a boot with a bullwhip on their head. However, when you open the album, the inside cover has only the crouching figure. Since I usually stream music or buy digitally, I don’t usually see details such as that. In addition, this review pointed out the inverse lyrics between the song Delicate, Petite, and Other Things I’ll Never Be, and the song Norse Truth. This is something that I doubt I could have noticed on my own, usually just listening to music as background noise for homework or driving. However, these lyrics offer a cohesiveness to the whole album, despite being described as less straightforward of an album than Transgender Dysphoria Blues. As is typical for any band, this album gets compared a lot to older material, but rather than a sort of “look how much worse they are now,” this review presents it as a sort of return to what made the band unique in the first place.
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