"For many years, Exene Cervenka has been torn between her first love, loud and aggressive rock & roll (as she's embraced it with X, Auntie Christ and The Original Sinners) and her ongoing flirtation with acoustic music rooted in folk, country and blues (see her work with The Knitters and her first two solo albums, Old Wives' Tales and Running Sacred). Cervenka's 2009 album Somewhere Gone was firmly rooted in acoustic territory, but its follow-up, 2011's The Excitement of Maybe, finds her trying to bring to the two sides together for a change. This album's volume is quite low by the standards of Wild Gift or Under The Big Black Sun, but with Brady Blade on drums on drums and Christian McBride on bass, Cervenka has an acoustic rhythm section that can lock into a groove and set a mood like nobody's business, and Dave Alvin adds subtle but scrappy electric guitar on most of these twelve tracks, giving this music a rough, soulful undertow. Add the presence of R&B-influenced piano and organ on many tunes and some solid horn arrangements from David Ralicke and The Excitement of Maybe becomes a low key but potent and atmospheric roots rock set that merges the expressive force of her rock & roll with the dynamics and subtleties of her acoustic material." -- AllMusic Guide

Track Listing
1 Already In Love
2 Brand New Memory
3 Alone In Arizona
4 Falling
5 I Wish It Would Stop Raining
6 Turning With the World
7 Dirty Snow
8 Beyond You
9 Someday I'll Forget
10 Half Past Forever
11 I'll Admit It Now
12 Love and Haight