Montreal’s Mike Evin, whose wry, sanguine songwriting touch brings to mind everyone from Van Dyke Parks and Randy Newman through to Warren Zevon, Jonathan Richman and Ben Folds, makes good on the considerable promise of 2005′s I’ll Bring the Stereo with his third full-length effort, Good Watermelon: a soft-hearted, exultant paean to the pure, wide-eyed wonder of youth – the carefree kind one longs to bottle and keep forever. By turns buoyant, saccharine sweet and wistful, Good Watermelon exudes a communal, impromptu feel throughout: Handclaps snap, makeshift gospel choirs chirp, sing-alongs break out and choruses swell like feel-good ’70s AM "round the dial radio" revisited, the sound of pure celebration rather than leaden, faux meditation, with nary a hit of affectation. Pop for purely pop’s sake.