Comprised of 10 sharp, catchy, tight songs that get in, make their mark on the proceedings, and are gone while the chorus is still imprinting itself on your brain, Crimes of the City is coming in hot for a Nov. 15 release just two years after Ian Blurton’s Future Now offered 2022’s stellar Second Skin (review here). Like that record, the band’s sound centers around a classic rock ideal, and Blurton — guitarist, vocalist, producer of his own projects and so many others, songwriter and here credited with “songplay”; I honestly don’t even know what that means; he recorded all the instruments? — touching on metal in soaring solos and Priestly chug, but here even in comparison to the last record going b-i-g on harmonies and melodic presence.