I'm OK, You're OK Jason Falkner Artist

The performances and productions on {|Jason Falkner|}'s first two albums were so perfect that listeners may have thought it was easy for {|Falkner|} to write and record his bittersweet love songs. Not the case, fortunately or not, and {|Falkner|} entered a fallow period during the 2000s -- he recorded often, and toured with {|Air|}, but released only scattered material (an EP, a collection of early demos, and a children's lullaby album). {|I'm OK You're OK|} finally appeared in 2007, bearing recordings from 2001 through 2007 and sounding like a true follow-up to {|Presents Author Unknown|} and {|Can You Still Feel?|} Self-produced and virtually self-played, the album doesn't stray too far from the jagged power pop of his earlier releases, although there's a bit of edge taken off. From the evidence of {|This Time,|} {|Stephanie Tells Me,|} and {|Hurricane,|} {|Falkner|} is still well aware of how to write clever hooks and wrap beguiling arrangements around them. ~ John Bush