"We're in This Together," the first effort from singer/songwriter Ethan Fogus' new band The Witness Marks (featuring members of The Boomtown Waifs and The Restoration), is a sardonic protest song with a Dylan affectation that gets its thematic heft from the sweeping indie-folk arrangement that recalls Bright Eyes circa-I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning. Lyrically the song swings hard at the current President's privileged obliviousness, crass misogyny, bellicose rhetoric, and racial resentment politics with a droll eye, but it's tied to a stately melody and a funeral hymnal poignancy brought about from the tumbling blend of fiddle and piano that carry the tune along. And when the rhythm section drops out on the spare, lilting bridge, the electric energy running through the tune becomes unnervingly clear. -Kyle Petersen