The Pinkerton Raid’s seventh full-length album, with original art by Bernardo Tirelli, depicting new life flowering on the brutalist bones of late capitalism. Starting with the birth of songwriter Jesse James DeConto’s first child back in 2001, these are 14 songs of empathy, responsibility and fatherhood in the midst of the trauma and chaos that have marked American life in the the 21st century.

1. They Were the Children

2. Plow the Fields / Smell the Roses

3. All the Protest Songs Are About You

4. How Does the Story End?

5. Wishing Wells

6. We Tremble with the Noise

7. The Fight for Freedom Was in Vogue

8. Strawberry Ice (and the World Burns)

9. This Machine Kills Loneliness

10. If a Tree Fell

11. If You Love Somebody, Tell Them

12. The Village

13. Your Name is Light

14. The Fire Lets the Light In