Jim Greer has the street smarts and innovative tendencies of Beck and the quirky melodic sense of
They Might Be Giants fused with Brian Wilson's mad genius -- so why has no one heard of him? Following the release of his debut, the one-man indie-rock super-session Lucky Day, Greer collaborated with genre-benders like
Tipsy and
Dr. Octagon. The effects wore off, and Greer combines loopy cocktail jazz-isms to his already fully developed sense of melodic indie-rock, from the kooky "Southern States" to the sparse, effective keyboard number "Dream On It." ~ Denise Sullivan