that would fit snugly on Lou Reed's Transformer. But singer-songwriters Dave and Serge Bielanko mostly sound like they're trying too hard. Lines such as "Underneath invisible stars/These dirty streets will forever be ours" flow without irony. The brothers suggest that if "we're only goin' through the motions," they'd rather be dead. But these true believers never quite escape the trap of their own nostalgia.