With the group's new Emotional Contracts lauded by Seven Days as "their strongest album yet" and "a remarkably lean, focused project," the alternative rockers of Deer Tick headline a June 24 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the artists' June release leading Americana UK to rave, "You have to believe that Deer Tick have the energy and maturity to keep going for at least another 20 years."