This is something of a Jekyll and Hyde record. Half of it flows with melodies and layered instrumentals and half of it descends into power chord heaven or hell depending upon your viewpoint. Singer Tom Barman’s style has become increasingly wide-eyed mystic storyteller which you will either buy into or cringe away from and there are a couple of experimentations with speaking instead of singing that are fun but do have the effect of detracting from the sum of the songs. Power chord wonder appears on “Dark Sets In” and “Twice (we survive)” that both feature Afghan Whigs singer Greg Dulli. You can tell Greg means it by the way he bellows on the lumpy “Twice” like a disagreeable grunge karaoke bloke. Thankfully, the beautifully skippy “Ghost” quickly removes any trace of him although another Barman speaking bit still needs to be navigated before the closing numbers carry on mixing loud and quiet with singing and speaking in a slightly less than thrilling way.