Since 2003, The Cavemen Go have created a kind of pop music markedly distinct from the music of their peers: Channeling the no-frills, hook-heavy sounds of early rock 'n' roll without sounding self-consciously retro; hopeful and capital-R Romantic, but witty and fraught with emotional ambiguity. What they play is timeless. New Lives, the first full-length album by The Cavemen Go, sees the quartet further fusing the past and the present. Their Brill Building/British Invasion/Motown influences ...