Blue Dream

After just two years, Seattle’s indie pop emissaries The Flavr Blue return with its second full-length record, Blue Dream. Picking up right where its debut album left off, Blue Dream finds the trio continuing to deliver some of the slickest and most well-polished pop and R&B songs one might hope to find. Though the album’s production is as smooth as porcelain, The Flavr Blue manages to keep the glossiness from becoming sterile and instead finds the kinds of depth and honesty sorely lacking in most modern pop. (Simon Weedn)