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Know Better Learn Faster
America Canada 'know better learn faster' sports a fuller sound with more pop tricks and trickier arrangements that incorporate swirling philip glassy keyboards pavement slackness new orleans horns and bluegrass tinged banjo alongside guitar bass and drums it contains a collection of hardlearned lessons about love sex and human connection 'know better learn faster' is a more mature record slightly disillusioned with the world but no less playful and with no less personality thao conveys a warm exuberance that keeps the music spry despite the weighty subject matter and the band's energy rarely flags instead the guitars grow only more manic and urgent as the album progresses on kill rock stars