Phosphorescent Transcendent

The new album from Phosphorescent, Here's To Taking It Easy, has taken hold of my life. Like a sunny laid-back mixtape of Neil Young, My Morning Jacket and Will Oldham, these songs unfurl in long rolls of groovy acoustic shamble, punctuated here and there by sly musical and lyrical surprises that just make you smile before enveloping you again in their honeyed sounds. "Hej, Me I'm Light" is so fucking sick it hurts. I simply can't stop listening to this thing, a strong contender for album of the year.