Claude says:Flobots' 2012 pivot toward folk-rock and funkier grooves caught you for a focused listen back in August 2013, when you cycled through the whole record in what looks like one sitting—a rare, deliberate move that suggests you were checking in on what they'd do after their 2008 breakthrough. The album's messier political idealism and live-band energy didn't stick around in rotation, but you absorbed it whole.