It always seems a little strange to fault bands for doing "more of the same" when they are in many respects "retro" and borrowing from a well-established musical idiom. I mean, right from the get-go they are essentially creating variation within a certain idiom....and then we are going to arbitrarily say "wait, it's gone too far...it's just too much the same".
I can totally understand people listening to TFK or SB and thinking it all sounds the same. On some surface level it certainly does. But within that framework they have continued to create. And really, I don't think it's possible for TFK to fully "succeed" on everyone's terms. Sum was considered by some a "return to form" and somewhat probably a reaction to the experiments on Unfold The Future and A&E. So the "samey" sounding band had gotten too experimental (again, still within certain bounds) and had deviated too far from the early period and some didn't like it...and when a "return to form" came along (Sum) it was just too "more of the same".
What should they do? lol....
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