In 1992, The Indigo Girls released their fifth album and found their first taste of mainstream recognition with the single “Galileo”. Since then, the girls have released several albums, powered several feminist movement tours and never again stumbled across the success that they found 10 years ago.

Their latest release “Become You” is the duet?s ninth full-length album, and it will be another staple for anyone who already owns the other eight. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers share songwriting, guitar, mandolin and bouzouki credits, and they enlisted a studio band to fill in behind their acoustic foundation.

The album is filled with their usual folk and soul sounds mixed with touches of blues and country bluegrass. But all of their attempts to branch out their creativity, and to draw upon their decades of experience, are painfully flawed.

All of the 12 tracks are rooted by the passionate acoustic sounds that have carried the girls throughout their career, but as soon as songs begin to shape themselves around the stringed foundation, the sound is quickly swallowed by another tired studio band.

The album continues to bring yawns with its endless simpleton lyrics and exhausted subject matter. The girls tackle hard-hitting issues such as love, loss, equality and love, again. Although these topics are frequently found on every album of every genre of music, the problem here is that they are accompanied by lazy sounds and even lazier lyrics.

The opening song, “Moment of Forgiveness,” instantly brings the pain of this album with lyrics like “I called you on the phone … I didn?t want to be alone.

I was willin? more than I ever was before … I come a knockin? at your door.”

A few minutes later, the second track, “Deconstruction,” opens with “and as we sat stuck, you could hear the trash truck.”

It?s okay to start laughing now.

There is a hidden treasure on this album that appears in a Spanish disguise.

The final track, “Nuevas Senoritas,” is a brilliant song that pays tribute to the women who fight with the Zapatistas, a Mexican revolutionary group.

The Indigo Girls have been making music for nearly 15 years, and for that they have earned a certain amount of respect. But the music they made for “Becoming You,” barely deserves this review.