‘Almost fell asleep on the drive home’, sings Tom Higgenson on Would You Even. ‘I wonder if you would give a shit / Got all these demoed songs on my iPhone / And if I die, then none of ‘em would ever be hits’. Plain White T’s are no strangers to hits, with one massive one in particular, Hey There Delilah, closing in on 1 billion Spotify streams after almost two decades monopolising romantic playlists — a high benchmark for anyone to maintain. PWT’s last album, 2018’s Parallel Universe, saw their pop rock blueprint augmented by electronic elements with overcooked, somewhat hollow results. This follow up marks a return to the more stripped back, straightforward storytelling that made the band’s name, then, which may explain the album’s self-titled status. Open...