The live performances of this album are outrageous. Here they are on SNL, making the accordion somehow seem like a badass rock instrument and bringing all the thunder to their songs about lightning (see what I did there?): And then the super-smily version of " Unconditional I (Lookout Kid) ": And blessedly, it is the fact that this fiercely enigmatic band can still put on one hell of a live show that is all that really saves " WE " from itself. It is well-arranged and beautifully-produced, which have long been features of the band's studio work, but for the first time they are let down by their songwriting. This is an album written by a band that is desperately out of touch with their own world, no matter how earnest they attempt to be, and as a result, so many of the songs fall flat and feel less like complete ideas than scribbles on a notepad that never, vocally or lyrically, came to fruition. The ideas are all there, but the life is stark in its absence. The