CKY Carver City (2009 UK 14-track CD album - So, what happens when four exceedingly different and distinct personalities come together to create heated, inspired music? Well, as CKY have shown over their ten plus years as a rock and roll force, it can lead to intelligent, provoking riffs and lyrics, meticulously detailed production combined with magical multi-textured melodies and heady drumming. 'Carver City' is CKY's first album of new material since 2005's 'An Answer Can Be Found',and the bands first studio offering since its split from Island Records in 2006. Thematically, 'Carver City' is part fantasy, part autobiography. To assist in the completion of the album, CKY concocted the fictional town of Carver City to help them. Miller and Ginsburg inhabited this imagined municipality with notoriously bad luck with dozens of illusory characters, and even created an elaborate history behind Carver. 'Carver City' [which features album art by Travis Smith] is perhaps CKY's most challenging and creatively gratifying endeavour to date. Conceiving 'Carver City' and its folklore helped the band complete what was becoming an exhaustive writing/recording process, at a time when they were still recovering from their near-meltdown. The band are back on solid ground again, back with a vengeance and a record that the band's allegiant fans will appreciate. As Ginsburg puts it 'the world didn't end, CKY still exist and are better than ever'.).