Songs about familiar record shops in Boston and strange streets in Italy. Songs about alienation from friends and intimacy with the stranger on the sidewalk. Songs about transitions from small town to city, from city back to small town, from functional alcoholism to alcohol functionalism. Songs about bad attitudes that should have been left in the 80s and those from the past that we wish we could conjure now. Nine tracks, fifty-eight minutes. The fifth album from the masters of understated beauty. More upbeat than Unsolved but maintaining the jazzier direction of previous releases.