While the band enters with a drizzle of lightly swirling pianos on the melodic title track, it is just as liable to break into multi-chapter orchestral thunder, as on the complex "Around the Bay." Meanwhile, the spiraling, borderline-Vaudevillian "Teenagers" conjures up John Lennon at his most playfully lo-fi. While Rossen's vocals certainly possess a whiff of preciousness, there's a raging loneliness (à la Brian Wilson) behind his echoing whisper, an air of hovering storm clouds--a large part of what makes IN EAR PARK so compelling.