"I was bored listening to the same chords," Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning sings in "Lost and Running." He doesn't mean it. The Australian band, together since the mid-Nineties, spiritually hails from an older intersection: mid-Eighties U2 and (no shock, given Powderfinger's name) the fuzz-toned Seventies of Neil Young's Crazy Horse. The best songs here do not stray far. Dirty-guitar shriek and burnt jangle fortify Fanning's earnest romanticism in "Head Up in the Clouds" and "Long Way to Go." "Black Tears" is a near-naked exception, inspired by the 2007 trial of a Queensland policeman in the death of an Aboriginal man. The officer was cleared of all charges, but Fanning still finds collective guilt to go around. "There's blood on all our hands," he sings to stark acoustic guitar and splashes of electric tremolo, an effect as dramatic as all the other guitar ammo combined.