To Dreamers

Kelley Stoltz is another great, unsung musician who once worked in a mailroom in New York City and found himself crisscrossing the country trying to find a place for his man-in-a-lo-fi-room pop music. His touring band performs on a couple of tracks here, but the focus is still firmly on the quirky singer-songwriter himself. Tunes such as “Rock & Roll With Me,” “Pinecone” and “I Remember, You Were Wild” recall the evergreen power-pop tunes of the late ‘70s, that were themselves influenced by the ‘60s world of Brian Wilson, John Lennon and Gene Clark. Big Boy Pete’s “Baby I Got News for You” rings out a like a pure mid-‘60s classic, with Pete Miller himself on guitar. “Little Girl” features plenty of odd garage-rock quirks with the guitars and bass tangling it up in reverb. “Love Let Me In Again” possesses a great innocence that hardly sounds like 2010. Stoltz is an efficient time-traveler, well aware of the charms of a bygone era.