Here we have a great 13 track debut by an Australian band fronted by a man named Luke Steele, who looks like a genetic mishmash of James Brown, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, and Prince. The music is beautifully atmospheric country-tinged rock with dashes of whisper vocals, honky-tonk piano, strings and the singing of a child. The lyrics are odes to lost love, misguided love and forgotten love - save for a few tracks that serve to promote the will to continue on. The background vocals, especially on tracks 1 and 3 serve to elevate the music to a dreamy plane and Steele's stylings have a power to convey feelings of hurt and loneliness similar to what we heard with Beck on his last album, Sea Change. It is great to hear a band like this drawing upon the influences of Beck, Richard Ashcroft and George Harrison to make an emotion-filled record this smart and poppy without succumbing to the whininess typical of the emo-punk that is prevalent everywhere these days.