Well, it's about time. Four years after their multi-platinum second album Bringing Down the Horse, The Wallflowers return with their latest offering, titled (Breach). And it was worth the wait, too. For this outing, the band sticks to the formula that helped make their last album so successful: a rootsy sound coupled with highly poetic lyrics. After all, if it's not broke, don't fix it, right?

The album opens with "Letters From the Wasteland", which has quickly become my favorite track. Sounding like a cross between "One Headlight" and "Angel On My Bike," this love song between a prison inmate and someone outside contains some of the best lines to come from the band: "It takes two to tango, but, boy, only one to let go" and "Sleep tight little boys of the new damned/Just another drop in the tidal wave of quicksand." "Sleepwalker," the album's first single, reflects the stardom the band found thrust upon them.

There are plenty of slower songs here too, like "Mourning Train" and the achingly beautiful "Up From Under", about a man who leaves behind his small town life, forsakes his family and heads to the big city to find his fortune, fails miserably, only to find a newer and happier life. With just an acoustic guitar and a string quartet, Jakob Dylan manages to make you feel the story of this young man, the regret he feels over forsaking his family and the simple joy he finds in his new life, despite the fact that he didn't find the fortune he was looking for. Other key tracks include "Hand Me Down," "Murder 101," and "Birdcage."

Throwaway tracks are few and far between. "I've Been Delivered" and "Witness" really didn't do that much for me. They're not bad songs in themselves, but, when put up against "Letters From the Wasteland," "Up From Under," and "Murder 101," they just don't hold up. Every song can't be a good one though.