I could try and write about just how great this album is, but I wouldn't be able to do is justice. As Lionel Shriver writes in the New York Times: Much like smell (it’s all very well to say that something smells “like an orange,” but how do you describe the smell of an orange?), music is notoriously difficult to evoke on the page. The fact that language has musical attributes — rhythm, melody, tone — isn’t much help when you’re trying to express Bartok or Captain Beefheart in words. Even when music has lyrics, its essence is antilanguage, or at least in another language — and an inability to translate explains why so many album and concert reviews are unreadable.
Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover, however, does a pretty darn good job of capturing the amazingness of Lost Souls:
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