On his first record in six years, this proto-punk icon keeps it terrifically mellow without getting mushy in the head. Lowe sticks mostly to roughly crooned ballads and vaguely Sixties-sounding rock, the best of which reveal a fighting spirit under their catchy exterior: Witness "I Trained Her to Love Me," a funny, nasty jab at an ex in which Lowe plays an aging ass man in the tradition of Frank and Dino.