The Dears have majored in bristling honesty throughout their 25 year-strong career, and Times Infinity Volume Two turns the microscope on Lightburn and Yanchak themselves. Propelled by driving bass-lines, fractious early single 'Of Fisticuffs' doubles down on the propulsive agitation of Times Infinity's first installment, typifying the universal, everyday tightrope of choosing which battles to fight. For Lightburn and Yanchak - married with a young family of their own - a sense of protecting what's important runs deep through Volume Two, though rendered with disarming tenderness.