Was reading about this on Google/drowned in sound/blogs etc, & look where I ended up!

Ryan, Ryan, Ryan - Boy does he need to go find Ethan Johns for a while...
It sounds like a shit 'rock & roll' b-side to me. It's certainly not up there with about 15 of his unreleased albums from back in the day.
Gotta love that he's gone from the horrible Dad rock AOR that was Cardinology, to an album that apparently his most devoted fans will pretend to love & 'get the joke' from for a few days, while the rest of us sit here waiting for the big reveal of a "proper RA album" a month later...
In retrospect, I wish I had appreciated 'Cold Roses' & '29' more when they came out, the last really good albums he did, if overlong.. & sadly, I wish he'd ditched the cardinals at that point, looking back at what followed...
Fingers crossed that this stuff is just a precursor to something, anything, that is remotely like 'love is hell' or 'heartbreaker'.