Let's Go Sailing - The Chaos in Order

It took me until track ten to realize that The Chaos in Order is solely an exercise in mimesis, and I’ve now forgotten why, when I first heard the band’s wistful piano coax out an entirely too appropriate cello, and Shana Levy’s early morning voice quietly bemoan her romantic woes, I thought it would be anything more. Maybe because Let’s Go Sailing is a moniker that could only be justified by some kind of ultimate post-post-modern irony, or maybe because the liner notes are scribbled over a drawing of a fantasy city most likely inhabited by Rupert the Bear, where the houses are brightly colored and the lines aren’t completely straight. Nobody serious could be this sincere, there has to be a catch. Except apparently there's not, and Let's Go Sailing require themselves to be recognized for their merits. It doesn't help then that there isn't a single new idea here, until you realize that rarely are these kinds of ideas this well-composed, or this nostalgically beautiful, in a way that only a city with brightly colored houses can be. [letsgosailingmusic.com]