When Matt Hitt says Drowners' second album was "written with a lot of uncertainty and darkness," it's easy to ask one simple question: Really? After all, the hooks careening across On Desire hit as hard as their debut, a DIY record that earned Drowners a following on the road alongside Cage the Elephant, Foals, and Arctic Monkeys. If anything, the New York band is as bold and brash as ever. Lurking a few levels beneath the group's tightly wound post-punk tracks are bittersweet minor-key melodies that burn like the red light of a setting sun.

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