Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The delight of the pun is not missed, the upbeat tempo that spices up the air around the senses is enjoyed, and the craft that Soul Asylum place in detail as their new album, Slowly But Shirley, spins its own delicacy of allusion and frantic joy, is to admired, and with a gust of rapid musical precision the listener is thrown head first in to a groove of refuge and sanctuary that is a haven against a world possessed as it is in fury and madness.