After 2020’s mischievously dark Rock Bottom Rhapsody, Illinois-born Andrew Heissler returns with his cherry-picking persona of Americana styles with a bright, clever and upbeat assortment of 1930s jazz, country, Hawaiian, calypso, folk and New Orleans R&B shuffle. It’s an LP written when touring was stalled by the pandemic, giving rise the opener Get It ‘Fore It’s Gone, setting the catchy, positive tone for the album a skiffly, easy rhythm, backing vocals, acoustic guitars and banjo. Mi Idea and then Fine To Me, with a cheeky voice warble is among the foot-tapping standouts, as is Rotterdam, a handclap tribute to the Dutch port city. There are some fine slower, more wistful numbers, such as Drink For You and the Hank Williams country-style Long For The Heaven I Seek, while Yo-Yo swings sweetly with ukulele twangs and yodelling. A charming, thoroughly beautiful album with a backyard feel, clever turns in lyric and seamless playfulness. Out on New West Records.
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