The first thing that you’ll be hit with is Sollee’s amazing soulful voice – it’s somewhere between David Mead and Amos Lee for me (check it out in “How To See The Sun Rise”, over a bouncy undercurrent). It grounds some of the more spare arrangements, and is the undisputed focal point – again, a mature choice for someone who can rip it up on their instrument like he can. But like everything else here, the musicianship is there to discover for those who get off on that sort of thing, but is in no way jammed down the throats of those who don’t.