Building upon his 2004 debut, the pop and rock takes over here from his country-soaked beginnings. Filled with songs that strike like a whiskey glass over the head, it’s interspersed with torch songs that feel like the open wounds left from said whiskey glass. But as it’s always been, it’s Ben’s wrought voice that melts even the hardest heart (‘Help Me Make It Down The Street’, ‘Summertime’) – he sounds like a lost soul with no time for redemption …