A fresh new release! I first heard the title track as a single while perusing music videos on YouTube and loved everything about it. Beyond the intriguing title is a spectacular album. Maybe it is my penchant for power pop (like Fountains of Wayne) speaking, but this feels great. It is a non-stop jam from start to finish and I can feel the well worn groove of a band playing together. It is an album about breaking up and the weird places that it leaves you. It is hopeful, a little mournful, and altogether enjoyable to experience.

Those that say traditional band driven music is on its dying breath are missing out of albums and bands like these. This is amazing right from the top. "Expert In A Dying Field" opens the album with a driving guitar and the positively lovely voice of lead singer Elizabeth Stokes. It asks the question 'What do we do with all we know when we no longer need to know it?' I get a little sidetracked from this asking in the grinding guitar, pounding drums, and heartbeat bass. I love the lush wall of sounds and coval sound of "Knees Deep." Likewise, "Silence is Golden" is a non-stop howl. Ironically proclaimaing the desire to turn down the volume on the world. It reminds me of the song "Adding To The Noise" by Switchfoot. I love the proclamation of "Best Left" because indeed some things are best left to rot. "When You Know You Know" Is a great song about knowing when you know and I promise when you listen to it; when you know, you know. The music is set with what I feel is this sort of 90's and 00's alt rock and pop vibe. This is all such tasteful songwriting and a refreshing revisitation of a comforting rock band sound.

It is hard for me to define what it is I love about this album. It feels at once modern or current, while also invoking half-remembered feelings of nostalgia. I get those great feelings of powerpop, but they don't feel cliched. It is familiar, but I would also recognize these songs immediately in a playlist. A sort of respect is played to where the genre came from. That said, these are songs for now just as much as they will probably hold up like the hits of years past. Stokes' voice is distinctive and delivers lyrics with a power and inflection that I can't seem to get out of my head. For all of you out ther who are experts in a dying field. This could be your next album to put on repeat.