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- Verified Buyer
This is absolutely one of the best albums I've heard in years. Excellent vocals, instrumentation, production along intelligently written and very personal lyrics all come together beautifully here to form an excellent blend of smart pop music along with some very different yet still very good tracks (see the title track "Dog Problems" and "Inches and Falling"). You can really connect with singer Nate Ruess, as his lyrics make you (almost painfully if you listen closely) aware that some girl of his really crushed his soul prior to writing these songs. Anyone who's been through a bad ending to a relationship or suffered some other form of heartbreak will know exactly what he is singing about.It's a shame hardly anyone has heard of this album, it deserves more recognition for the indie pop masterpiece that it is. Fans of their first album may be put off by its more mature, less radio-friendly sound, but if you actually appreciate music this is by far The Format's superior work.
