This is the fifth album from an old-school quintet based in Sydney led by British singer-songwriter Mark Lucas who moved to the land down under over 30 years ago.
It comprises twelve soft rock/ pop songs with an early 70s, pre-punk, drift. The flat production neutralises any raw energy the five men might have taken into the studio.
Despite the spiteful lyrics of the opener, It's Not Me That's Blue ("Take a long walk off a short pier"), Lucas and his Dead Setters seem like a mild-mannered bunch of guys who take quite a few trains, drink too much whiskey and harbour dreams of love setting them free.
The songs are solid but too full of tired metaphors and platitudes to strike much of a personal note.
"File under adult alternative Australian roots music", it says on the sleeve.
Mark Lucas' website
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