Sentence:  There's lovely touches all over the record, but with exception of 'Dance On', propelled by the most <WSD>itchsome</WSD> drum pattern since B Bumble & The Stingers, and 'Anna Stesia', a ballad of lust which builds inexorably from a simple keyboard figure, there's a feeling of incompleteness about the rest of the songs which is all the more frustrating. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Irritating; annoying