The hidden corners of Graham Parker's songbook are, if anything, even more gleefully bitter than his withering ‘70s hits. “That's What They All Say” is finger-pointing folk rock on a par with Bob Dylan, while “Stupefaction” attacks an empty-minded society over a Stax soul beat. He also unflinchingly takes the scalpel to his own feelings in the rolling country lament “The Other Side of the Reservoir”.