On Rob Thomas’ sixth solo album, All Night Days, the Matchbox Twenty bandleader yearns for the chaos of youth. The title puts the singer in that hazy early-morning light, in that half-sleep state after an all-nighter, before the body can figure out what time it is and why it’s been awake for so long. On the title track, Thomas cooks up a hard-charging drum groove and atmospheric synths that give way to a chugging guitar melody and pedal steel accents. He wishes to be wild for just one more minute, to approach life with the unabashed joyfulness of his youth. He admits it might be the booze speaking, but honesty always flows easier with inebriation. “Picture Perfect” is a throwback cut, featuring drum sounds from ’80s synth-pop records and glimmering synths. Here, old memories are like “sad, sad songs”. Thomas asks to be taken back to a time he can hold on to, to a world in which the highs of freedom are tangible—not merely memories he’s left singing about.