“Don’t blink or you might miss it/Life is a garden, you said/Just walk among the flowers/Don’t kill or be devoured,” Young the Giant lead singer Sameer Gadhia instructs on “Evergreen,” the boisterous opener of the band’s sixth album Victory Garden. An instructional path for navigating the pain and beauty all around, the full-length—co-produced by Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Incubus, Pearl Jam)—highlights the California group's soaring, anthemic proclivities with precision on cuts like “Bitter Fruit” and “Ships Passing.” In the end, Young the Giant’s cavernous nature and bleeding-heart exuberance give way to quieter moments on both the wispy “Are You with Me?” and “Life Is a Long Goodbye,” the album’s plaintive final track, which poses the question: “Nothing gold can stay/Life is short, so they say/What can you do/When Father Time is singing?” Well, just keep tending to that garden as long as you can.