These Orange County guys — known for decade-old frat-soul hits like "Fly" and "Every Morning" — haven't gotten near the top of a pop chart since early in W.'s administration, but on their sixth album they're still turning out pop rock so good-natured it practically gives you a big smile and a fist-bump. Mark McGrath dispenses everydude philosophizing like "If you wanna see the rainbow,...

Mark McGrath knows what you're thinking. The singer never called Sugar Ray the world's greatest rock & roll band, but they had some fun during their peak years in the '90s with bouncy radio hits like "Fly" and "Every Morning." They toured the world, sold millions of records and landed on the cover of Rolling Stone in March 1999. "That's when they were really giving it away for free," McGrath jokes in a typically self-deprecating rasp.

Sugar Ray never broke up, and have continued to...