Each of the songs on the album have a rambling quality that prevents them from forming cohesive wholes. These are not pop songs traditionally crafted and melodically there is little that unites each composition. I find myself drifting off listening to this, not from relaxation but boredom. The songs don't strike me as particularly insightful nor beautiful. the pottery barn comment seems apt, but even here the songs lack the melodic robustness of norah jones style crooning.… Expand

Could be his best work yet outside of S&C, including what he did with the Coctails

Prewitt is the type to win critic's praise: always tasteful, always hip. There is nothing offensive here, nor anything all that exciting. Indie blandness mitigated somewhat by great arrangements and textures. What critics consistently fail to note is that great arrangements do not make great songs.

zebob h, your criterion for judging music includes offensiveness? Would a little gang violence or misogyny improve your opinion? Is being and tasteful and hip now a supposed to be a detraction? Anyway, this is a great cd. My only complaints are the usage of cliched country slide guitar and generally bland arrangements on the later half of the album. If it could have lived up to the promise of the first track I would have given it a ten. If you've never heard of Prewitt then you are better off with his earlier cds: Three, or White Sky.… Expand

I would not be surprised to hear this on a Pottery Barn compilation, or playing in the store. That's what people mean by inoffensive. And yes, that it is. Tasteful and inoffensive. Which do not a classic album make. It's a good easy listening CD for the jilted generation, and doesn't bother to transcend the genre.