On their sophomore album, the Indiana quartet fold classic heartland sounds into lush post-rock, capturing modern-day fears and anxieties with cinematic flair. "We will destroy the earth and all we've made," singer Steven Hamilton laments on the expansive opener, "Why Bother," all with the casual coolness of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. This nihilistic outlook lurks throughout—under the climactic Americana of "You Know Me," the dusky, dreamy, piano-pounding lurch of “Capture,” and "Living Like the Rest," which takes the harrowing perspective of a refugee.
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