Album: The Hold Steady, Heaven Is Whenever (Rough Trade)
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If you were to take the first four songs on the album as a measure of those parts, you'd come away thinking that the Hold Steady are composed of the bits left behind in the tray by Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, the Replacements and Graham Parker & the Rumour. Yep, they're pretty good and they're heartfelt. But for all their raging guitars, they're exciting only some of the time.
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