Anyway, before he made deracinated aesthetic disasters, Butler wrote songs for the insidiously great Waitresses, whose "I Know What Boys Like" was only the tip of the prog-influenced Ohio art pop miceberg. So I had to give him another chance when I found this cheap.
The great songs here are the longest ones, and those succeed due to great arrangements and a nice understanding of when to throw in a new song-section to shake up the verse-chorus-verse. Those two qualities in ANY measurable quantity might have fixed The Devil Glitch. Ah, okay, enough. I just hated to see an underappreciated songwriter flop, and I hate it more now that I know he was still capable of doing better when he did.