"With half the band having left their native Texas for N.Y., this is the first Institute album. Despite the distance it sounds every bit as cohesive as if they were all still hanging out every night in the same Austin dives. Last December, the band got back together in Brooklyn to record with their longtime producer Ben Greenberg (Uniform). Where the previous Institute albums often wandered into the experimental, Readjusting the Locks strives to be economical, its 13 tracks clocking in at a tight 29 minutes. The band has seamlessly incorporated more '77 rocknroll into their sound, some songs feeling like they could've been a Stiff Records single. This sound is emphasized by Greenberg's expert production -crisp but still blown out and dirty. Lyrically, R.T.L. moves away from the traditionally personal words of frontman M. Brown. Rather than attacking the internal workings of his brain or its socialization,this album attempts to address the societal atmosphere in which hisagita exists".