This accords with my take on Belle and Sebastian. Their new album hasn't fully grabbed me yet but I'm sure it will with a few more listens. "To my ear, the first three albums have always been the perfect ones. All the parts—the writing, the performances, the production—complement one another so perfectly, and in such perfect service of the emotional material, that it’s difficult to imagine anything about them being different."
Belle and Sebastian Sing of Middle Age
You can’t be an alienated semi-adult forever.
newyorker.com