Guster’s “Easy Wonderful” is an upbeat, quirky and very poppy album, but it is all over the place with different genre influences and instrument combinations that unfortunately work in only a few songs.

“Easy Wonderful” is Guster’s sixth new album that was released on Oct. 5.

The majority of the album is upbeat and inspirational. There are a few songs that are slower paced than others but still have an optimistic sound.

Most songs have background singers singing cheesy tunes like, “Na na na na na”, “Do do do do do”, “Oh oh whoa oh whoa” and “Who ho ho no oh oh oh” that gave the songs a Beach Boys feel.

The first song of the album, “Architects and Engineers,” has a really catchy chorus. This song fits the genre of alternative rock, but the rest of the songs seem to have many genre influences, which was very unexpected.

Guster is talented at using harmonious voices and a variety of instruments. They use a lot of nicely played piano, intricate percussions and, surprisingly, a banjo twang that works well.

The best song on the album, “Hercules,” sounds like a folk song. There is a lot of use of banjo riffs in this particular song that sounded really awesome.

Even though Guster had a lot of variety in instruments and genre influence, they lacked in creativity because they used the same musical structure for almost every song.

They all start with a few measures of instruments and begin to sing a verse, then the chorus. It all builds up to a strong, grand, instrumental bridge, then comes the second verse, chorus, and an abrupt ending.

The only thing different about the songs is the unexpected genre twists and the lyrics, which were written symbolically and hard to interpret.

The worst song on the album is “This is How it Feels To Have A Broken Heart.” The intro is atrocious. Guster’s main singer sounded like a pop singer and used harmonicas throughout the whole song.

The bridge was just as bad as the intro, it sounded like an epic mariachi band joined in the group.

After listening to the album twice, I only liked two songs in the entire album, “Hercules” and “Jesus and Mary.” The rest of the album isn’t really worth listening to.