On , again offer up the sounds of their hearts and inner landscapes to the skies and whoever's listening. The band's tendency to start a song quiet, loose, and lovely and then slowly sweat it into a faster, intensified crescendo is familiar by now, but somehow remains vividly evocative. The emotional road from heartbreak and regret, expressed through beating music with wailing violin ( ), to feeling lost, heard in a song's slow unraveling ( ), and back again is part of humanity's oldest story, and is a tale that violinist , guitarist , and drummer are good at telling. If you are a fan of 's past expressions, you'll be moved by their sound again as they relay new wordless tales of woe, sadness, and things past. Worth noting: The quieter, reflective pieces like deliver moments of reprieve, and bass guitar (played by ) is heard for the first time on a album since 1994's . ~ Joslyn Layne