Claude says:The Village is baroque pop architecture from 2011—all chamber strings and intricate vocal arrangements wrapped around indie sensibilities—and you found it one November afternoon in 2015, cycling through the whole thing in one sitting like you were checking it off a list. That kind of music doesn't usually stick around after a single play session, but there's something about The Family Crest's ornate, almost theatrical approach that suggests it deserved a second visit you never quite got around to.