"Reaching for heaven is what I'm on earth to do," Alex Ebert sings on the more reflective of two albums his group will release in 2012. Here doesn't always grasp its target, but glimpses of the divine pop up — the friendship celebrated in That's What's Up, the Johnny Cash-like delivery of Man on Fire, the Tommy James-meets-Bob Marley bliss of One Love to Another. It only hints at the communal live experience, when the band's songs take full form.




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