There's a lot of anguish on this album. Even the slower tracks are dripping with angst. Across 9 tracks, all of which are solid to the core, the song is the thing. Their style reminds me of a few contemporary indie bands that I can't readily name, mainly because the style is not one that I, personally play a lot of - but I'll tell you one thing for sure - what they do, they do to perfection. If you want lyrically interesting songs sung with heartfelt emotion and deeply reasoned yearning, then this is the place to be.The lead vocalist has a voice that is pure and strong, veering more towards the higher range of the scale, but always in tune, and laced with exquisite harmonies, sounding I would imagine, a bit like the more slowly unfolding songs of bands such as Radiohead and similar. From slow-moving songs that you wouldn't really describe as ballads, to more rocking tracks where the band get to show their muscle, the album overflows with songwriting on a seriously emotive scale. Take track such as the gorgeously languid "innocence" for example - carefully crafted arrangements provide ringing guitar work set against a slowly flowing rhythm section, multi-harmonies that soar as lead vocals croon and the sound travels from simply distinguished to thoroughly expansive but always with a beating human heart pumping the life into the piece. That it roars into "Last Chance" where the band fire up and go supernova, with the song still strong, as the vocalist starts silently then lets loose a vocal that traverses the scale to great effect, is a mark of how competent the band are at what they play and write. Then having the courage to end the album on an almost epic sounding slice of indie angst, shows the conviction that the band has in its songs and how exquisitely they write and arrange, always keeping things relatively restrained while at the same time conjuring a kind of emotional intesnity out of something so strong and yet so slowly flowing. This time the whole thing increases its strength of emotion as it goes, the light jangly guitar backing the final ballad-esque strains. Earlier on, they'd begun with a more sprightly track that still set the theme for things to come, and let you know that this is an album for song lovers and no mistake.Decidedly of its time and decidedly well done.