The Revivalists/Burning River Ramblers

I can’t decide if you’re better off smoking a cigarette in a dark room or dancing ‘neath neon lights while The Revivalists’ latest album, Men Amongst Mountains, plays. Either way works, I suppose. This is a soulful album, one that strains the band’s New Orleans-based perspectives on music through the more straightforward and accessible rhythms of, say, Alabama Shakes or Tedeschi Trucks Band -- all good stuff. Here, the songwriting shines. Singer David Shaw, who takes lead writing credit on most tunes, laid his best efforts yet on this one. (See “It Was a Sin,” a towering anthem of heartbreak and dissolution.) (Sandy)