Exit Wounds

Jakob Dylan and company joined forces with musician-producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Green Day) to record this 10-song set, which is the band’s first release since 2012’s *Glad All Over*. Dylan tells Apple Music that working with Walker allowed him to “come in with the best \[he has\] to offer,” skipping the filler and the fiddling around common to many studio sessions and honing in on the sound—the melodic roots-rock of classic Wallflowers, made stronger by decades of touring and recording—he’d painstakingly envisioned. “I mean business and these records mean a lot to me,” Dylan says. “I kind of want to come in and just have everybody ask, ‘So, what the hell are we doing?’ And then drop a song out and everybody lights up.” Acclaimed country singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne lends vocals to four of the album’s tracks.

On their first album in nearly a decade, Jakob Dylan and co. return with highway ballads and Saturday afternoon rockers, sounding like the classic rock band they’ve always ached to be.

Jakob Dylan and company have grown old comfortably, making solid but unexciting roots rock.

The Wallflowers' 'Exit Wounds' isn't radically different from the band's other albums. Lyrics paint vivid pictures and the melodies are instantly familiar.