When Matt Hitt says Drowners second album was ''written with a lot of uncertainty and darkness,'' it's easy to ask one simple question: Really? After all, the hooks careening across ''On Desire'' hit as hard as their debut, a DIY record that earned Drowners a cult following on the road alongside Cage the Elephant, Foals, and Arctic Monkeys. If anything, the New York band helmed by Hitt and rounded out by guitarist Jack Ridley, bassist Erik Snyder, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Daniel Jacobs is as bold and brash as ever.