Hard Candy, the Counting Crows' latest album serves up some much needed refreshment among the recent morass of poppy pop and American Idol rehash. The band's fifth album delivers a solid performance from Duritz, who has definitely backed off his overly self-reflective tones from August and Everything After, and produced a sound that is unmistakably all-American rock. It's so good, in fact, that even their hidden track — a remake of Janet Jackson's Got Till It's Gone — is worthy of repeated listening.