Lvl Up - Return to Love (CD)

""Hidden Driver,"" the opening track of Lvl Up's third album and Sub Pop debut Return to Love, never stops moving. What starts with unassuming guitars and vocals adds new lines, depths, and intensity, until it's unrestrained, triumphant finish. ""God is peeking, softly speaking,"" repeats the chorus, working through the relationship between spirituality and creative inspiration, and introducing a band that is always pushing further. Lvl Up - guitarists Mike Caridi and Dave Benton, bassist Nick Corbo, and drummer Greg Rutkin - is a true collaboration, a band that takes the stylistically distinct ideas of four members and brings them together into something new. Caridi, Benton, and Corbo write and sing equally, bringing their work to the group to be fully realized, resulting in an album built on different perspectives but a common drive.