Remember your first relationship? How everything seemed bright and shiny and important? How you thought the two of you would be together forever, even if at the moment you were really only teenagers in semi-permanent like? Or maybe you're in a relationship right now, where everything is a beautiful sunny day even in the coldness of reality. This is not the CD for those relationships, but it may help you treasure the good ones you've been in if not motivate you to call your other to tell them how much you love them as soon you finish listening to this CD. It's a CD primarily for the distinegration, the aftermath. The rock sound is apropos for the rocky relationship, the relationship already on the rocks. It's a CD for realising that after any number of not-so-great relationships you're happy with saying goodbye to those who bent your heart (though at the time you thought it was broken), and having the courage to express contentment with not being in love... but at the same time, not closing one's self from the beauty of love itself. From the lead single "I Love Not Loving You" which speaks to the realisation of knowing you're better off being apart from that person, to "Everybody's Right" to "Worse Than Before", the tempo and tone of Wide Mouth Mason's uptempo rock songs speak to being brave enough to come out and say what many are afraid of saying in polite society. It's no longer about fitting in, about hiding behind the pretenses... it's rock Wide Mouth Mason-style, an evolved tone which is heavier and assertive, it's rock for rock's sake. Who knew that the breakdown of a relationship could have such rhythm when put to music? With the exception of "Please Go Home", which speaks to a different relationship beyond the romantic, each song on SHOT DOWN SATELLITES stands as conversations of a relationship breaking down, or at least in a state of flux. The lyrics of each song sound familiar to those who've experienced similar emotions, similar attempts to try to make that other person respond if not listen to what is going on. And yet it's not necessarily a CD of sadness. There's a strength in the way the songs have been built for this album that suggest resilience. Of the two ballads on SHOT DOWN SATELLITES, the bittersweetness of "Rust", the musical lament of love being lost is beautifully rendered with the gradual adding of drums, of bass, of vocals to a song. Hearing "Rust" will twist your heartstrings but will also make you yearn to hear the song again just to experience the exquisite ache of emotion that underlies every note, every beat of this song. For those moments of just needing to rock out with emotion, this album is what you need.