Songs Album II is the second album of songs rather than soundtracks and instrumentals by Los Angeles based singer songwriter and musician Aaron MF Olson, he shouldn't be mistaken for Aaron Olson who currently plays drums for Asia. Aaron MF Olson played the majority of the instruments on this album, but is joined by Robin MacMillian, Tara Milch, Michael Sachs, Luke Csehak, Blue Broderick, Bart Davenport, Wayne Faler, Andrew Dorsett and Matt Popieluch.
The album opens with The Endless List Of Anything a slow strummed guitar and keys evocation of a modern almost Laurel Canyon sound for wandering about that empty car park on the street and myriad other minor key travails.
Gilded Lawns of Summer have of course turned straw yellow, he notices a street sign urging you not to run over the local children in the heavy traffic, over a cool picked guitar and gentle strumming this hints at the beauty you find when you step off the hamster wheel of life and enjoy your day dreams.
Jennifer (Here With Me) is slow hushed begging and pleading for Jennifer to be his till the end of time, the slow piano rises gently while he makes clear his intentions for Jennifer that is far more noble that the Jennifer Courtney Love sings about.
More Than A Life's Work slowly shimmers and allows Aaron to explain how your life's spirals captivate him. Nobody Can Tell but everything will turn out ok, well hopefully, but it's the 2020's so that's quite an unlikely outcome.
The Punisher is possibly the most hushed and reverential song, about a spoilsport who ruins every event he ever turns up at, a true unwelcome guest, you want to 86 him before he's even sat down, he is such a party pooper.
The Small Planets is close hushed and rather bucolic neo-folk music to star gaze too. There Comes A Time when you want to have backwards sounding guitars and a sense that growing up and being more mature would be a good thing.
We Welcome Our Travelers From The Wormworld who have a player piano and a huge amount of empty tequila bottles with worms that need consuming, somehow after ingesting several they still sound coherent and in tune, with just a little askew stumbling through the bright day broadlight, with woodwind dishevelled hair.
Who Do You Think You Are I Am you can hear the drunken argument in the insistent riff, relentlessly building, despite gentle vocals, the bile is flying that accusatory phrase, turned into something more pastoral, to trick you into falling for this schtick, so Who Do You Think You Are I Am truly I am and don't you ever try to deny it, at least until after you've bought and heard this album.
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