"Back to the Front is a pretty thrilling welcome for fans like me who felt that the band peaked with To Ride, but that warm initial flush of excitement cedes way over several listens to a much less starry-eyed sense of mere contentedness. "Second to None" and "Waiting for Death" have immediately engaging riffs, and "Soldier of No Fortune" shows the band at a post-millennial high point in terms of composition, but for the most part the eleven tracks here, though promising in light of the group's checkered past, offer little by way of new classics to the band's catalog".