Rating : - The real thing
Wow. I don't usually listen to "alternative singer/songwriter", but after hearing this guy play a couple songs on a radio show, I picked this album without hesitation. It's one of my strongest purchases of 2006, and certainly the best outside my usual genre.

Strongest tracks include "You and Me", "Century Girl", and "Mr. Circle" (one of a couple of tracks written in a South Pacific pidgin, whose optimism is unmistakable).