Pitchfork

Head of Femur's pop-prog approach is alive and well on "Leader and the Falcon", a mini-suite that changes gears a couple of times in its four and a half minutes. There are plenty of bleeping keyboards and chorused lead guitar parts and more stacked vocals harmonies than ever before. In fact, it opens with a big bed of harmonies and a twinkly little Bruce Springsteen piano part before it jumps into its riff-stuffed first section. The song's most exciting passage is the sudden tempo change in the middle that precedes a gradual acceleration to a guitar-drenched bridge. It's stuffed full of instruments from front to back, but it's not overbearing or bloated, just fat and happy.