★★★★✩
After the back-to-basics rock of 2022’s 12th album Oochya!, Stereophonics offer a more age appropriate set of contemplative mid-paced moves. Bar the superb sleazy blues of Eyes Too Big For My Belly, it’s the Phonics at their calmest. The anthemic Mary Is A Singer is a new Maybe Tomorrow and Backroom Boys has an assured country groove that only experience can offer. At just eight songs, it washes past like a chilled Sunday afternoon breeze: essentially a more soothing take on the balladry of 2019’s Kind.