There's nothing wrong with Kero Kero Bonito's sound and style. I can enjoy some fluffy twee-bop now and then. The problem is that the songs on this album are almost uniformly mediocre. Most of them sound like tossed-off throwaways with perfunctory melodies that immediately fade from memory once they're over. KKB might have a great album in them eventually, but they're gonna have to step up their songwriting game considerably to get there. Until then, their undeserved hype seems to be due to little more than the Caucasian hipster's ever-growing obsession with all things Japanese.