In 1997, Matthew Ryan released May Day, his ragged, bruised debut album that dealt out feelings like playing cards. 20 years later, the Pittsburgh-based songwriter hasn’t drawn any of those cards closer to his chest. This new full-length – produced by The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon – brims with a hunger and desire to fill the holes inside us that would otherwise kill us, but it’s paired with an unquenchable thirst to truly thrive for the short time we’re on this planet.