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erhaps no band better encapsulated '90s radio than San Fran pop punksters Third Eye Blind, whose infectious, distortion-drenched, climb-up-climb-down melodies practically knighted them as guardians of anthemic airwave rock. Frontman Stephan Jenkins charmed his audiences with a poor man's Bono routine, stretching into raspy vocal lisps and sandpapery falsettos whenever the melodic fuzz warranted.

Wisely, the trio's fourth studio album, Ursa Major, isn't so much an emulation of that bygone shtick as it is a celebration of it�a familiar, mindlessly fun ode to commercial alt-rock. Easily digested but not so easily forgotten, Ursa Major is tongue-in-cheek, candy-coated fare that thrives on...