Desire Path

One Eleven Heavy's brilliant second album Desire Path is a wry, occasionally biting, but always joyful celebration of human endurance and the ability to overcome. Nick Mitchell Maiato's album opener, Chickenshit, deals with lazy acquiescence to attention-seekers. Pianist-cum-drummer Hans Chew's first songwriting contribution to the band, Fickle Wind, externalizes the band's raison d'etre by questioning society's drive toward constant change. Meanwhile James Toth fires off image-laden witticisms about the unnecessary difficulty of human interaction in Too Much, Too Much, mocking fashion-conscious Marxists at the same time as he laughs at his own cacti-withering row(s) with (his) old man.'