The sixth studio long player from the Windy City-based outfit, finds bolting down the house they finished building on 2010's , offering up a 13-track slab of vintage mid- to late-2000s heavy rock piled high with bottom-heavy riffs, piston-like percussion, and big modern rock radio-ready choruses. has more than its share of vintage goodies, like the soaring first single "The Vengeful One," the stadium-ready "Who Taught You How to Hate," and the nervy title track. The band's dramatic reading of 's "Sound of Silence," which effectively utilizes the pared-down piano-and-vocal treatment that helped resurrect ' "Mad World," and the anthemic and refreshingly upbeat mid-album gem "The Light," impress with their unabashed theatricality and strong vocal turns from . And as per usual, 's stellar guitar work is the glue that keeps the whole affair from disappearing into the populist ether. ~ James Christopher Monger