After a few wilderness years of toiling away with Ray’s ever more confounding large-scale projects, the Kinks began to pivot back toward a more commercial approach in the late 1970s. After setting the table with the palate-cleansing Sleepwalker, the band delivered a batch of purposeful, concise, and frequently brilliant tracks on 1978’s Misfits. The strange but wonderful “Rock And Roll Fantasy” is one of Ray’s most moving bone-deep confessionals, while the title track recalls the kind of great soul ballads that once made the Faces so incandescent. Dave chips in with the poignant spiritual contemplation “Trust Your Heart,” which underscores the record’s striking melancholy and seems to provide an answer of sorts to his brother’s wounded soul searching.