It's called because the creative process fueling their 2022 duet album made and feel young again. Of course, they could feel like their younger selves because they're spending the great majority of their time playing oldies but goodies, digging out warhorses by , , and to form the bulk of their 13-track album. Such a description suggests might sound like pro forma karaoke, but check another one of the couple's covers: "The Death and Resurrection Show," a -era tune by industrial icons . It certainly seems unlikely that British Invasion blues stalwart pushed for its inclusion, so that can be chalked up to , as can the general dour tenor of the album. Allegedly, the recording of helped the pair to blow off some pandemic-related tension -- naturally, the song they chose to cover is "Isolation" -- but instead of feeling like an outpouring of joyous connection, it's a bunch of griping. contributes to the sour tone by murmuring his way through the neo-industrial "Sad Motherfuckin' Parade" and attempting to conjure the ghost of on "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" in a fashion that winds up sounding like latter-day . Much of sounds a bit like after left, where there are wide-open vistas that allow the guitar solos to shine. often sounds liquid and lyrical, a counter to the stumbling glower of , who seems to be stuck in a growl even when he shoots for a falsetto on 's "Ooo Baby Baby." Tonally, don't quite mesh -- 's guitar wants to soar, stays earthbound -- and instead of generating something rife with tension or an outright failure, the results are just leaden and dull. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine