The distracted strum of How To Tend A Sad Heart is the ‘90s kids in them wanting of make a Dinosaur Jr. record of that apparently effortless slackness happen, but then a more modern work ethic kicks in and the out-of-step march of Teenage Hell, or the vaguely alt.country of Honest with its lightly chopped guitar ring, show a band who’ve realised they’re going to have to put in to make something worthy.
There are pop songs of some skill and some style, and they’ve made the best of them on an indie budget.
