Jon James has made a beautifully melodic, reflectively sad, and joyfully fluttering music experience. His comforting, dreamy vocals are immediately immerging, and his music has a way of making you feel like a participant--like maybe we're ALL in his band when it's playing on the CD machine..."(So Far) Off Broadway" is my favorite track, but all the songs are great, each, together, making up a contiguously continuous, whole experience that will transport you, and perhaps incite you to create some dreamlike place of your own that James hasn't yet seen or imagined. And although the imagery and music is potent, it is not demanding.  While listening, certain phrases and sounds set me off on my own for a bit.  After a few seconds, when I returned back to the song, it seemed to be sitting there ready and waiting for me to hitch back on.  What a great album.  When is he gonna make the next one?  How can I help?
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Jon James is a one-man-band indie pop guy, and a talented one at that … an excellent collection of well-crafted pop songs, lyrically smart and musically polished … with songs about speed queens and Britney strip fantasies, there's not a whiff of self-involved, whiny singer/songwriter music to be found … far better than most current self-played, self-produced records … well worth a listen or ten. (Kent Benjamin)
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Each song shines in a Weezer-like construction of pop gleam … an album that requires more listens and more thought than a conventional pop album demands … pick up James' record and pay attention.
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There's no doubt that there is being released a lot of really good independent music worldwide these days, but it doesn't happen very often that a self-released album actually is chosen as the album of the month from the 50 or thereabout CD's reviewed in every issue in Past and Present Music. There might have been self-released albums that have deserved that honor in the past, but it hasn't happened since we started choosing the album of the month. Until now, that is, as there's a first time for everything … "Turn It On/High On Flashback" is one of the best songs I've heard all year … I love it.  Enough said. (Hans Jakup 
Eidisgard)
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