This Time I'll Be Nice

I don't usually write about music here, but despite a ton of decent releases this late Winter/Spring, the one I've had on repeat-all since the moment I first heard it is Yours to Keep by Albert Hammond, Jr. I've been lax in my music-blog reading (lately it's all comedy, all the time), so I'm sure there's all kinds of love for this album already, but to add to whatever cacophony of adoration there may already be: it's fantastic. It makes me nostalgic for Is This It while somehow being simultaneously more earnest and more self-aware than the Strokes ever were. My favorite song is Bright Young Thing (track 4), but really, I love them all.

A quick Google search shows I'm not the first person to notice the it-had-to-be-intentional homage to Hilary Duff's "Wake Up" on "101". For reasons I can't even explain, I found that to be a brilliant touch.

Anyway, it's good.