As the album's title track suggests, several songs are unguardedly romantic, while others touch on the paranoia, fear and resulting insularity in these politically conservative days.
It then uses its characters to create a fully realised sense of place, from the muscular proselytizing of its evangelists to the insularity of its bayou-dwellers.
Not least because cultural insularity and extremism are products of the failures of wider society to foster a shared sense of belonging and to advance liberal democratic values.
