For a band that made waves in roots rock throughout Ohio, the Peachbone's new album, Revenant, opens with almost stunningly new ambition in the opening seconds of the first track, Tattered Sails. Gone are the previous conventional alt-rock devices; leaving only a bare an honest love song that exists outside of time and lays the foundation of an album filled with wonderful seaside imagery. On their second full-length effort, Hoover's lead vocals maintain equality with the music that lets his conviction and presence co-exist with great delicacy over songs that range from ballad glory to ballsy rock. The entire album, The Peachbones achieve rock-out jams that never resort to generic garage band tactics. Lyrically this album comes light years further with personal honesty that refuses even a drip of the current emotional sentimentality so many other bands use as a crutch. The songs are constructed with a range of loneliness- sometimes violently exhaustive, other times, thoughtful and pensive but always with a sense that the outcome is yet to be determined. In Big Like the Sea, a song in almost psalm-like form, the band yields what the entire album promised: a marriage of energetic slow-rock and the poetry only a ballad would have time for. The lyrics maintain the anxiety of being alone but being with others; being in a world that is hard to trust, perhaps due to one's own actions. The accessible lyrics seem hopeful we will all overcome the largest waves that loom. With the confidence this album exudes, it seems the Peachbones already have.