Eve 6 "Speak in Code"

     If you believe that Eve 6 couldn’t come back potent as ever after a little hiatus, then It’s All In Your Head! If that happened to be their swan song, I would not be disappointed because it was a very consistent and cohesive album, as well as the records that proceeded it. I thought they would never return gain after that last update before they went incognito, but they have not lost their penchant for writing clever (pop) rock songs. They probably missed it, by the sound of the opening “Curtain.” The song could also refer to an old “friend” who used him as a ladder to be able to own the spotlight, and now Collins watches in the rafters in a spoken word piece that reminds me of the bloodhound gang for some reason; it could just be completely hypothetical though. The dance rock of “Victoria” can groove with the best of the genre’s most well-known players, and even their own contemporaries. What is another way to say scenario obsession? “Situation Infatuation.”  I guess Collins does not believe in the bro code, but his “B.F.G.F” does not believe in monogamy. “I keep him happy” she says, and Collins does not seem to mind either; with a shrug in the air “if I’m an a******/That’s cool/As long as you know it.” The horn-drenched ending is the icing on the cake, or the reason as to why she’s “sweating in the back of a cutlass.”                                                                           High expectations are what often cause the easiest frustrations, because they are brought upon by the fascinations of someone you admire; If you’re high on a wire, and have little poise it is easy to fall into the “Lion’s Den.” There is no need for a science dedicated to analyzing how some “Blood Brothers” end up getting infected with animosity towards one another because we can say that it’s usually a girl (or guy). This may become misplaced in the “Lost and Found,” but I just lost my way to the “Moon.” The funky and lively bass may sit shot gun, but gives the rhythm section the gas to take us  for a ride “Downtown,” and the backseat driver harmonies aren’t so bad either. Ok, I can see that maybe some of these songs sound like they could have been found on earlier records, and you can “Trust Me” when I say this sounds like an old country party rocker I once heard.                                                                                                                   You think you are aware of what you want, and you meet this girl (or guy) that is like a monkey wrench; s/he busts a hole into “Everything” on your wish list and improves upon it. “Pick Up the Pieces” sounds like it could be featured on an Angels and Airwaves record, but would work better here; the damage that a broken heart can cause is illustrated in this song.