In 2019, Barlow started sifting through over 35 years’ worth of song fragments, his involvement in Joyful Noise’s Artist Enabler series adding impetus to work some up to completion. One such scrap generated this album’s opener, an over-easy number acknowledging Barlow’s rediscovery of the music-making spark. It’s a warm and slightly rickety set, with folk-ish elements and faint echoes of Sentridoh. There’s poignancy in spades, of course (“You protect me from myself and when you roar I want you most”, on “Paws”), but the brief “Thirsty” (Love do acoustic metal) and darkly swirling title track are captivating shifts in style and pace.