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With all due respect to the hard rocking boys in the band, the star of this quartent, the reason you tune in, is singer-songwriter Elizabeth Elmore. Her subject is her lovelife, but as with fellow indie travelers like Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein, you'll be hard-pressed to guess which parts of her songs are fiction and which parts are half-remembered from last Saturday night, when she's being sincere and when she's being pointedly ironic. She's as melodic as the above mentioned at their best, but she woudl sooner lean on texture and drama, though as usual the best tracks here are the most immediate, especially "Face It," a presumably autobiographical number in which the Liz of indie rock clashes with the Liz of Northwestern Law and neither can get a good night's sleep. And if her alluringly attractive voice doesn't pack quite the wallop of a PJ Harvey or Corin Tucker, I'm gratified to learn once again that the girl next door can be just as screwed up as the rest of us, and that her talent and perserverance can get her through her travails regardless.