A departure from the acoustic format of "Frankie Said", "Short Circuit" is electrified and features acoustic guitar fed through a multitude of processors and tubes emerging as something wholly different, wild and alive. Says Manners: "There"s something exciting and visceral about an acoustic guitar when it"s electrified. You can feel the body pump, the strings have life, the guitar, like a little animal, and you"re gona ride it." Short Circuit features 12 new post-modern roots-rock songs dug from the Elvis Costello meets John Hiatt meets Tom Waits vein.