I am also a huge DMB fan, and am sure that others of the hard-core will have problems with this, but this album simply doesn't measure up, musically or lyrically, to the band's previous albums. They attempt at times to follow the same formula, with some important changes, but they don't quite hit it. Don't get me wrong, the album doesn't suck, but the fans deserve more than this, and I hope we get it with the next album. Things have been declining lately. I respect the fact that they have been trying to evolve, but effort doesn't count; I want results. I give it 1 star simply because I expect 5 from the band, and they didn't get there with this one. Sorry.