Many listeners to Tired Pony's pleasant if plodding 2010 debut The Place We Ran From wondered why REM's Peter Buck, Belle and Sebastian's Richard Colburn and particularly Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody would bother making an extracurricular record that sounded like Snow Patrol. Clearly not the band themselves though; much of this follow-up, a collection of earnest, country-tinged rock, comes loaded with the hallmarks of Lightbody's band – plaintive vocals and choruses that lumber in the direction of anthemic uplift – but scant evidence of the more nuanced talents surrounding him. Still, at least a handful of songs twinkle like drivetime gems.