Springfield may be best-known for 1981's Billboard Hot 100 topper "Jessie's Girl," but the Australian singer's career has endured a full 40 years in an industry that blows hot and cold for his brand of mainstream power-pop. Following a 2005 covers album and a 2007 set of Christmas standards, the all-original "Venus in Overdrive" demonstrates the strengths that keep Springfield in the game: broad stylistic range and pure emotional energy. First single "What's Victoria's Secret?" relies on a near copy of the "Jessie's Girl" musical formula, but the album builds to include modern rock, a reggae-tinged title track and the intense "Warning Shots," surprisingly Reznor-esque to the point of invoking Lucifer. The album's third, less radio-hungry act is its most satisfying, settling into soul-rock and Beatles-influenced tunes like "She" and "Saint Sahara."—Evie Nagy