BRMC proves that it knows its rock history on quite a few of these tracks. "We're All In Love" struts along over a Stones-y electric guitar riff, while "In Like The Rose" uses a more space-y guitar approach as the foundation for its Beatle-y harmonic vocals. With druggy sounding "Shade of Blue," The Velvet Underground comes to mind, due mainly to its choppy and semi-haphazard guitar work, while the reckless musical abandon of "Heart + Soul" borrows a page out of Sonic Youth's book of rock improv. As usual, BRMC's emotions run high throughout this work. There's a lot of open disgust with the United States -- perhaps because of the Iraqi war -- revealed with "U.S. Government." Then on the acoustic "And I'm Aching," the band sheds a few sad tears. With "We're All In Love," love is examined with a rather ironic gaze. On it, the group sings, "I'm in love without you." Of course, maybe it's just an example of lyrical narcissism. I don't know.