The Wallflowers Exit WoundsRock n roll is often hard to define, or even to find, in these fractured musical times. But to paraphrase an old saying, you know it when you hear it. And you always hear it with The Wallflowers. Exit Wounds, which stays true to its title, is an album that is an ode to people individual and collective that have, to put it mildly, been through some stuff. I think everybody no matter what side of the aisle youre on wherever were going to next, we're all

LOVE GUN contains very little filler--"Christine Sixteen

" Gordon wrapped her cunning insight around the Karen Carpenter story: "I feel like I'm disappearing/Getting smaller every day/But I look in the mirror/And I'm getting bigger in every way

as co-producer and vocalist)

Clear eyes

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Format: LP

which also featured Antibalas on a reimagining of the Donald Byrd classic 'Think Twice'

Casey Royer (drums

should get the point across

The blood doesn't really get pumping until the fifth track

and the covers of the Trashmen's gloriously silly "Surfin' Bird" and Bobby Freeman's "Do You Wanna Dance" are conceptually perfect

anthemic chorus)