Away When You Were Here ' seem contrived and exhausted -- the former sounds like it wants to be ' The Long and Winding Road ' but fails to achieve it. Both songs boast film score string orchestration aiming to add emotional weight, but when a song is already a sinking ship adding weight will not compensate or provide the desired counterbalance effect. Elton John would probably get away with it, but only because no one under the age of 60 buys his albums. Even so, these passing moments are compensated by jewels such as ' Michael Praytor, Five Years Later ' and ' Do It Anyway ', Folds smashing the keys with a dissonant-elbow to uncover rollicking piano figure. And Sledge's conventional walking bass line has a sting in its tail when his ' Big Muff ' is unleashed for the instrumental breakdown -- the classic electrifying BFF sound that fans have been longing for. Perhaps the only drawback with the album, though, is that it doesn't quite live up to what BFF are capable of. It does sometimes repeat what they have already accomplished; the creative sparks a little less spontaneous. That said this is a much more mature album for their catalogue; the sound of a group that has grown up -- a little older, a little wiser -- and is enjoying playing together again. Or maybe this is just their 'warm-up' and a calculated build to something more ostentatious, we will just have to wait and