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Her talent suffuses this album. She proves that her songwriting is a match for the best of them when veteran singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn takes a turn on "War." The lyrics about our growing numbness to war are so perfect that he could have written them himself: "Every morning I get up and I raise the flag/Salute the monument of those who gave their lives/And I guess war's OK, it's just a little inconvenient, but it's better/Than a video game... it's better than the movies."
Kimball is hardly missed here. Her strength was in the harmonies, and on "Plumb" she's replaced by overdubs of Brooke's voice.
"Full-Fledged Stranger" provides a perfect example, its full, layered sound highlights the beautiful harmonies with which The Story first made its mark.