' 13th studio album, 2021's , delivers much of what the long-running Canadian band's hardcore fans are here for. Arriving almost 30 years into their career, is a thoughtfully constructed record with songs that reveal the group's continued knack for balancing intimate, often humorous personal sentiments with more anthemic feel-good moments. Once again front and center is lead vocalist , who has remained the band's primary songwriter since the departure of co-lead singer in 2009. has grown as a performer and many of his songs here, including the opening "Flip" and "New Disaster" (the latter an incisive rumination on the 24-hour news cycle), are pleasantly hummable and emotionally affecting. The band take a bigger swing on the tongue-in-cheek party song "Roll Out," a track reminiscent of their past hits like "One Week." Part of ' charm has always been their ability to amp up large pop audiences and then step back to offer up a more relatable, small-scale world view that feels like it comes from their own personal experience. Lending some of this poetic relatability to the album is keyboardist , who contributes a handful of his own poignant songs. In "Big Back Yard" he dreams of the perfect home for his family, while "Bylaw" finds him being humorously woken up by a maintenance worker at 7 a.m. More widescreen in tone is "National Park," in which he ruminates on how seeing a rhinoceros in the wild can open one's soul to the smaller beauties that surround us every day. ~ Matt Collar