In & Out Of Love – The album starts quietly with a repeated shout of the songs title, getting louder until a drum fill ushers in a swaggering hard rock riff. The song as a whole is an immediate departure from the first album; toning the synths down to a supporting role for the chorus, emphasising the riff and the bass, slowing things down a bit, and just generally coming across with more of an AC/DC style groove than they had before. Lyrically it pretty obviously relates to being on the road; and as such the title could take one of two meaning: either being in and out of love with that lifestyle; or with the people that they knew before and meet along the way. A bomb reference (“Young and wired / set to explode in the heat”) and a fire reference (“You’ve been burned / baby lessons learned”) help to set up two of the dominant themes for the rest of the album. The conversational interludes, while a bit strange and random, help to give the song character, and would be a semi-recurring theme later in their career, especially bookending demo recordings. All in all, this is a solid hard rock opener which manages to provide an effective bridge from one album to the next.

3+/5