The Windbreakers - Run

This release is generally a leap forward over the group's prior albums. Songwriting here is mostly top-notch, with Tim Lee's work in particular showing strong improvement over previous outings. Lee's songs range widely here, from the hard-rocking fuzz guitar and organ number "This Time -- She Said," the odd and lumbering psychedelic-oriented song "You Don't Know" which sports a filtered vocal and unusual chord progressions, the classic jangle-pop cut "I'll Be Back" that features an unusual growled vocal and twangy sitar, and the wonderfully gutsy and driving title track. Read More