Title: Secondhand Dreaming
Artist: Ruth
Tooth and Nail

Label Tooth and Nail and producer Aaron Sprinkle continue to churn them out, raising quantity versus quality questions. And Ruth (pretty much lead singer Dustin Ruth's baby) do sound similar to their Tooth and Nail contemporaries – nasally vocals, slabs of neo-punk power chords, tunes that are like Switchfoot's but not quite there yet. However, Ruth go the extra mile when it comes to spicing up the sound, adding Strawberry Fields orchestration here, a muted trumpet there, and a hopscotching piano to the end of One Foot In, One Foot Out. Plus Here To New York takes on a twangy Wilco feel, Mr Turner is like Coldplay in its sweep, and Always Yours, with cleaner guitars and a whirring organ, sounds like Californian pop from the 1960s.