Short review for a short album:

The A.C. Newman album is a lot better than it should be; it's really the surprise of the summer for me right now (supplanting the old number one of how badly Beastie Boy Mike D. has aged; seriously, it makes me fear the passage of time) . It sounds like New Pornographers, of course, but without so much of the studio razzle-dazzle and A.C. doing every song. Not as great as Electric Version, but undeniably catchy as all get-out. High points: "Miracle Drug," "On the Table," and "The Town Halo." One problem: goddamn short. Thirty-three minutes? I mean, even Rivers Cuomo's like "that's one short album."