The first great “I failed rehab” album. Jason Pierce finds “The Twelve Steps” treacherous with banana peels, “The Straight and the Narrow” too straight and narrow. But for a bunch of songs that say yes to drugs and no to life, they’re strangely inspirational. Which, come to think of it, is what I loved about rock ‘n’ roll in the first place.Michael Little
Let It Come Down
A few of the things we're listening to this week, in no particular order