For The Waybacks, musical evolution is a way of life and a spectator sport. They're as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, but their experiments are invariably sharp-witted and musically dazzling. Now configured as a four-piece with a full arsenal of acoustic and electric instruments, The Waybacks introduce the boldest, rangiest and most exciting album of their career. Produced by Nashville bassist Byron House, the folky underpinnings are still there, but after years of playing a huge range of venues and festivals, a summer of touring with Grateful Dead founder Bob Weir and reconfiguring themselves around the hot guitar of James Nash and the fiddle virtuosity of Warren Hood, the group is enjoying a refreshed repertoire one that's touched by Memphis soul, roadhouse boogie, Parisian swing, classical, vintage blue pop and much more besides. By stepping forward as songwriters and assembling their first project of entirely original music, they've found a new collective voice.