Aping the title of a double album by bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings" is being billed as "just your average brilliant, unsparing rock & roll song cycle about the high life and the low life, about sin and whatever the hell follows."

In frontman Adam Duritz's words, it's about "dissolution and disintegration. It's about when Saturday night happens and you lose all sense of yourself. And it's about when you wake up Sunday morning and look back at the wreck you've made of your life and you think, 'How can I possibly fix this? How can I ever climb out of this hole?' And then you start to try and climb."

Described as having two distinct halves, two early tracks released for the March 25, 2008 release, sound distinctly different. "I Dream of Michelangelo" shows promise with a dreamier "This Desert Life" feel while "1492" has the loud, poppy rock & roll bit that wears thin for the listener who would rather here the former.

Does it represent a return to form so to speak for those who loathed "Hard Candy"? We shall see. One good sign is that was produced by Brian Deck, whose past credits include Modest Mouse and Iron & Wine.

Added Duritz in a news release announcing the record:

"These days, everybody wants to tell you how different every genre of music is and how one kind is good and another isn't. But on 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,' country and bluegrass find a way to effortless prove that it's all really just music. Our album may not have much redemption in the end but we got all the sin I could live with and at least an attempt to try for something better."