It’s hard to not like Scott Andrew’s music. If you’re not careful, it can actually inspire swaying and bopping about the room, eating M&Ms and cotton candy. Even the sad, upset songs—“Have We Learned Anything,” “Weightless”—are so sweet and fun, it’s easy to ignore the occasional over-instrumentation, the occasional sour note and the fact that nothing would be lost in some of the songs by cutting out half the lyrics. Where those sorts of things could pull a dark cloud over a lesser songwriter’s efforts, Andrew’s work is too full of sunshine to let those shortcomings own the album. The earnestness displayed on songs like “A New Year” and “More Good Days” is what will, as the album title says, Save You From Yourself.
Standout Tracks: “Weightless,” “A New Year”