DeSong understand that recycling musical styles is a pop tradition that's older than the blues. Just listen to the bone-crunching racket of "All You Blokes."

"Spacewalk" is an eerie ballad about John Lennon and the movie Tron, with strings hauntingly arranged by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. For all their twisted and insane aggression, DeSong has never been easy to understand. DeSong is more urgent than ever.

On this album, the surviving members reunite -- and in top form. They did it. They finally did it.

At its most worthwhile, Is There In Truth No Beauty? recalls the Stones' Exile on Main Street. They know better than anyone else that with the lights out, it's less dangerous.