“Lightning Crashes” sits alongside Bush’s “Glycerine” as one of the most typical post-grunge songs from the mid-1990s. It had the requisite level of angst coupled with emotive openness, and used the loud/soft formula perfectly well.

After that, Live went on to pump out a succession of records that essentially mined the same template – in that respect, and also to some respect in terms of their musicality and their religious founding they more resembled U2 than they did Nirvana. Songs from Black Mountain continues much in that same milieu, but perhaps with a slightly lighter touch.

Single and album opener “The River” finds vocalist Ed Kowalcyzk further refining his delivery style, incorporating acoustic instrumentation instead of rock action. It takes until “Show” for the band to really cut loose and deliver something more in keeping with what you might expect from Live.

Given that this is their seventh album, to be changing tack (even ever so slightly) this late in the game at least shows that Live aren’t interested in standing still, but instead are interested in trying something different, even if “Love Shines (A Song For My Daughters About God)” is more than a touch heavy-handed. While it’s hardly rule-breaking or particularly surprising, it at least shows that as a band Live are still a relevant act who aren’t simply re-treading their past successes.