I just missed Pete Francis at Jammin’ Java in Vienna last month, and man am I pissed. Pete’s latest album, The Movie We Are In, is fantastic. It’s 
retrospective retropop–a collection of perfectly crafted, well sung, and deftly played tunes, with spot-on production, an acoustic feel (with electronic accents), and vivid, bright colors. The album seems bursting with sunlight, glowing warmer with each listen. It’s the kind of thing you hear once and immediately want to hear again.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this one of the best releases I’ve heard so far this year.
There, I said it. For fans of: Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson’s solo work, Phish.
