This Milwaukee six-piece made one album, Salty Tears, for Warner Brothers in 1988 which, had things gone well, would have been the first of seven.
What happened was that the record bombed, the label dropped them and the band decided to call it a day. Life's a bitch sometimes!
Two decades on, older and wiser, they reformed for Wages of Sin (2011) and ,now, The Why And What For makes it three.
No longer tied to a restrictive deal, this should be a an occasion to kick over the traces and show the world what they're made of. Instead, it's a disappointingly lacklustre mix of laid back R'n'B and Muscle Shoals soul that sounds like Tom Petty on tranquillizers.
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The More She Wants The More She Gets was the only song that made me take notice and that was only because it audaciously steals from Derek & The Dominos' Layla Part 2.
This kind of music has to be raunchier and sexier if it's going to work: the tracks here are lacking in any freshness or passion.
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