Mikal Cronin: MCIII (2015)

Mikal Cronin is an indie rocker out of California, playing on all manner of projects. His second solo LP (MCII, natch) was a wonderful bit of mid-fi indie pop, shades of Teenage Fanclub; his third album is similar, but ups the production a bit, adding in some more orchestration while retaining the hook-heavy songcraft.

Opener "Turn Around" is a terrific bit of baroque pop, calling to mind the New Pornographers and the Shins, dynamic and full of killer earworms that will haunt you all day long. Pl...