They are a marriage both figuratively and literally of two talented songwriters, Deb Talen and Steve Tannen, who together have achieved the kind of critical acclaim and fame neither was able to achieve as respective single solo artists in Boston and New York.

Their formula is pretty simple, indie-folk-pop if you will, but effective. So much so that pop-star/actress Mandy Moore enlisted the couple to write for her latest album. Yeah, that Mandy Moore.

If that sounds like more of a reason to run from the band than give them a listen, join the club. But fortunately, Hideaway for the most part shows that the success hasn't gone to Deb Talen or husband Steve Tannen's heads.

Songs like "Orbiting," "How You Survived the War" and "Just Blue" stick to a similar formula that made their first two records so beloved by their growing legion of fans. It's not genre-bending or earth-shatteringly inventive, but when you hear Talen sing "duck into avoid the rain, a baby wants to cry, so do I" it's hard not to feel some kind of connection.

"All This Beauty" and "All Good Things," meanwhile, display a poppier sound I could do without. The latter is a holdover from the collaboration with Moore and while it sounds 10 times better than it does on Moore's throwaway album, it still sounds too much like a cool band covering a not so cool pop song.

Thematically and stylistically similar to their past efforts -- the album's title track makes the obligatory Weepies reference to "the stars" -- Hideaway can perhaps best be described as a continuation of the band's first two records that would fit in nicely with a record collection that already includes the likes of Ida, Over The Rhine and The Innocence Mission.