The fourth studio album by this Florida-based four-piece roots rock band uses the tried and tested Byrds/Tom Petty template to rattle briskly through ten songs all about struggling to survive and thrive in hard times.
Using standard verse-chorus-verse structures, it is resolutely commercial in feel but left of centre enough to count as alternative.
It begins with the hand-clappy stomp of Standing At The End Of The World where contemplating planetary overload is made faintly bearable by the fact that the apocalypse will be televised ("we're gonna watch it on TV").
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Life is depicted as a rugged and ragged journey on songs like High Road
The Places but the upbeat mood and resolute message of The Show Must Go On ensure these songs centre on standing tall even when the going gets tough.
The flat production and predictable arrangements count against them but a glimmer of defiant spirit is enough to make for a light, though not spectacularly luminous, album.
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