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"Their tenth album - and first in a decade - is more like an EP, consisting of only seven songs. It's been heavily hinted it might be their last for Lewis is suffering from Meniere's Disease, which chronically affects his hearing and therefore his ability to sing. His singing, however, is not the problem. The music trawls tepid, funkless territory. Whether teetotal rhythm & blues or squeaky clean jazz-funk, if ever a music was "lite", this is it. They run the gamut from country to doo-wop (the latter on the supremely cheesy "Pretty Girls Everywhere"), the vanilla whiff of dinner party jazz occasionally present".

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"If the album's production is a shade too precise and polished, the quality of the originals and the presence of a cover of Eugene Church's "Pretty Girls Everywhere" more than compensate. With one notable exception, the tracks are firmly songs for a sunny afternoon, with the opening "While We're Young" carrying not a note of bittersweetness. The exception is the closing "One of the Boys," a sweetly nostalgic, twangy stroll through the past that feels like a nod to the group's country-rock beginnings as Clover. Arriving at the end of this cheerful set of rock & soul, it seems like the one time the News are taking stock of their mortality, but the rest of the record captures them at their best, delivering good-time music with a smile".

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