Lannie Flowers

Flavor Of The Month

Big Stir Records

What’s striking about this excellent power pop album is how easy it is to connect with the emotions of the songs. While the romantic feelings are mostly confusion, frustration, and everything in between, you never get the sense that all is lost with any of the women he’s dating, that everything, in the end, will be okay.

It’s not all bad, either. “Good” means life is good. The title song is about knowing the time, while you’re spending time on top of the world. “My Street (Front Porch Version),” a new version of the song that appeared in a “Nashville Version” on his last album, Home, also fits into this general mood.

Home was a concept album about going home, being home, and home as a state of mind. While concepts aren’t the case on Flavor Of The Month, many of these songs have a theme, about maybe being just that, but in a good way. Life is enjoyable this way, and eventually this phase will end and everyone will go on to someone else, leaving you alone to be whatever you want to be.

“Summer Blue,” an earlier single, is one of the best songs on an album filled with great songs. It’s about being in love with a woman called Summer, and wishing you could be with her. It sums up this wonderful album nicely, so what are you waiting for. Get it!

Andrea Weiss