I guess I'm just at a loss as to how this record isn't living up to past performances. Having admittedly not heard the album as a whole but being familiar with the songs, I find it incredibly difficult to believe that any of them fail to meet the exceptionally low standards of, say, MR. COLUMBUS, a song from that OTHER album distributed by Hollywood Records which failed to garner the animosity afforded the self titled. I also can't remember guitar work on any previous releases that matched or even competed with that of "Tiny Light." 

Perhaps Mr. Woodward and I simply differ in taste, but I have always found This is Somewhere to be rather subpar, and listening to it again for the first time in ages does nothing to dispel that opinion. The obvious gems bookend the record, and in between is a decidedly bland midsection with good-but-not-great midtempo numbers and ballads, as well as the aforementioned worst song in their catalogue. The tours promoting the record are what kept me coming back again and again and again, always with newcomers who now bring their own GPN virgins. Whatever they're doing on stage, they're doing it right, and they're doing it in bigger and better venues. And they're doing it with some different personalities. Wonder if breaking up the sausage fest by adding Kat helped Grace get in touch with her inner sexpot? Nah, let's just assume this was a desperate grab for the fame that was clearly building steadily all along.