it sounds like he found the mark mothersbaugh rugrats theme sound bank and decided to make an album using only those sounds. he's kind of always traded in vague nostaglia — i think he writes catchy melodies reminiscent of NES/SNES/sega genesis game scores — but it's a little too on the nose with the sounds he's using on /TLOP5/. the tracks just don't hit has hard as his best stuff with carti and nudy, or even /TLOP4/. i could deal with his awful rapping and singing on /TLOP4/ because the instrumentals were so good. on /TLOP5/ his rapping and singing have improved but the beats declined quite a bit. he tweeted out that the deluxe edition would have samples (whatever that means) so maybe there will be some better songs on that version