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Tom Stone and the Soldiers of Fortune's third album Cosmic Shores shows the band synthesising their diverse range of influences into an accessible, take-no-prisoners wall of sound. One thing that distinguishes the Soldiers of Fortune on Cosmic Shores is their encyclopaedic knowledge of the nooks and crannies of 1960s and 1970s rock - lead singer Tom Stone's enthusiastic record purchasing could have kept Sydney's independent record stores afloat for years. As a result, their music has occasional echoes of everything from Arthur Lee's Love to Deep Purple and from Mashmakhan to Queens Of The Stone Age. Simultaneously, this is not a band content to be a museum piece doing pastiches of better artists: instead, it's a band with something to say, using the palette of classic rock to say it. Tom Stone has said that his lyrical concerns can be summed up as 'sex, death and existentialism'. As such, songs like 'Standing On The Cosmic Shore', 'The Pleaser/See How She Glides' and lead single