Specializing in orchestrated epics that are a far cry from their nominal folk-rock, the sibling-heavy group doubles down on bombast on their second album, . Beginning life as a pseudo-concept album, bursts with big ideas and even bigger arrangements. use a lot of sound and fury -- harmonies, horns, armies of acoustic guitars and planks of piano -- to convey a sense of romance and drama, so it's hard to ignore . Often, this onslaught feels like overkill because the songs aren't structured to support such heavy arrangements. When scale things back, as they do on the bright adult contemporary tune "Dead End Road" or the insistent "You're the One for Me," they reveal that they have charms not far removed from latter-day , but too much of is submerged in needless bluster. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine