| Pete Yorn |
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L.A. songwriter Pete Yorn juggles the roles of pop dreamboat and slacker iconoclast with surprising ease, mixing sensually crooned choruses and lazy melodic shuffles that recall nothing so much as Paul McCartney after a transfusion from Ryan Adams's bloodstream. On his sophomore outing, Yorn mostly sticks to his introspective one-man band formula, breaking out only to wag his head, Jimmy Page-style, on the boogie-fest "Carlos (Don't Let It Go to Your Head)." The haze that envelops many of Day I Forgot's songs isn't thick enough to obscure what's going on in Yorn's universe, but it is sufficient -- particularly on "Long Way Down" and "Pass Me By" -- to cut off contact with what's going on in the world outside. Several tunes are decidedly more crisp and succinct than anything that appeared on his breakthrough album, Musicforthemorningafter: "When You See the Light" has a chiming, Badfinger-like vibe to it, while "Burrito" is as smart and sunny a tribute to dining at a 7-Eleven as rock has ever produced. A fine soundtrack to a season where the livin' is easy. David Sprague
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