Soaring and bombastic, The Assassination employs the piano to great effect on this track, combining 1950's and early 1960’s pop – infused heavily with a Phil Specter style sensibility – to create easily the catchiest and most symphonic song on the record.

Perhaps the other strongest selection on the album, “Charcoal Days and Sterling Nights” takes a bluegrass/honky tonk template and applies it to a well crafted pop song formula. Needless to say the result is a rootsy, dramatic and completely endearing treasure. It is a totally successful cross pollination of styles that have always been considered incompatible opposites in the music theoretical spectrum.

We Belong to the Staggering Evenings is an important evolutional accomplishment in rock n’ roll. While most bands emulate or pay tribute to their idols, creating music using genre templates that are already in place, the Assassination pushes forth the envelope of the various genres that helped them to create and develop their sound, constructing the next revolution in rock n’ roll rather then something that is appealing only because it is reminiscent to past glories and innovations.

It is time for the Ike Reilly Assassination to move beyond the moniker of the serious music fan’s favorite little secret to take their rightful place on the forefront of American Rock n’ Roll in the 21st century. We Belong to the Staggering Evenings is ample evidence that they are prepared and equipped to do just that.