Restorations accomplished a lot with LP3: It’s not only a worthy follow-up to 2013’s mammoth LP2, it’s the best work of the band’s career thus far, expanding upon previously established ideas with a sort of palpable, calculated rebellion. The band found their sound—regularly thunderous and dense while remaining impressively melodic and often introspective, a sort of amalgamation of Americana and post-rock through a fiercely punk lens—almost immediately upon formation, but at this point appear much more comfortable in their own skin as performers and songwriters. It shows in how slow ballads like “Misprint” can coexist so seamlessly with searing anthems like “Tiny Prayers,” and how a track like “Separate Songs” can sound so much like a “radio single” without straying from the formula.
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The Fat Angel Sings 