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Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
2006, Reincarnate Music
D+

Here is Jeremy Enigk’s formula: start soft, add some ridiculous synth, and then swell into an ear-piercing wail. Knowing this, the world might have waited longer.

The balding bawler begins World Waits with a track called “A New Beginning,” but listeners’ high hopes will be promptly scattered into a sea of pomp and bullshit.

And if it weren’t for the album’s already-dated-sounding production, the most telling track on World Waits would’ve been “Been Here Before”- except Enigk seems to have revisited his past flops instead of efforts like “Return Of The Frog Queen”- or even the first three Sunny Day Real Estate albums- that first earned his acclaim.