I've gotten into the habit of reading the lyric sheet, if available, of an album I purchased on the fifth listen. Finally got around to doing so for Smoke Or Fire's The Speakeasy.
Technically their third album (though they released some records previously under a different band name), it was nice to see they snapped out of the sophomore slump, This Sinking Ship. Where that album was uninteresting and self-involved, The Speakeasy is awesome and lyrically diverse with its comments on society at large. The album does seem to drag near the end, but I'm going to keep all 13 songs on my iPod. After all, it's probably their last album. As a band, they haven't released anything since 2010, the Year of the Speak Easy.
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