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All this success and quality brought anticipation for this year's Veckatimest to fever pitch; tickets sold out for June 16th's show at the Parish room (with Here We Go Magic, alumni of our 2009 SXSW day party) before the album was even released. Chances are, you missed the boat, so we're pleased to offer a few chances to attend the show regardless of your ticket-buying trigger finger.

In a sense, Veckatimest is what happens when a bunch of ridiculously talented musicians think their way so staunchly through their songs that the end result is something a little too polished, a little too perfect. But this isn’t just a case of excessive studio sheen, as that knob twisting isn’t significantly more spit-shined than on the exceptional Yellow House; instead, it’s the instrumentation itself that adheres so closely to the “right” way of doing things that much of the magic of discovery and mistake is lost. Still, this isn’t to say that Veckatimest isn’t a wonderful work, because it is. But how about this: is it possible for an album to be a sweeping, marvelous success in so many ways, yet still, at the end of the day, feel like a disappointment? To that question, Veckatimest says yes.