The band’s fifth studio album is kind of a mess…in the best possible way. Full of unexpected transitions, it’s unique in their repertoire because it has no overarching aesthetic sensibility.

What Guster’s third LP teaches us is that the simple fact that you have to make a change doesn’t make it any less painful.

While ‘Keep It Together’ feels like a giant pivot away from the apocalypse-in-waiting of ‘Lost and Gone Forever,’ it’s not a betrayal of Guster’s identity as a band.