The Virginia outfit offers trickier-than-it-seems scruff-rock that seems to reveal new colors on each listen. What first appears an outtake from Dave Pirner's Minneapolis gets complicated by arena guitars, the occasional rock-god aria, and Foo Fighter tones without the bad mood.
The Luminaries traveled to this blue marble oasis in a steam powered spacecraft on a mission to save rock and roll. Unfortunately, their vessel crashed in northeast Tennessee and they were forced to frantically record an album in one day at a studio in Bristol while their ship was being repaired.