Three-and-a-half decades after The Jayhawks released their debut, age has only added extra melancholy to frontman Gary Louris’ voice, as well as a bit of joy to the wordplay in his lyrics. Those two emotions define what is somehow only his second solo album, which ambles beyond his band’s already wide palette to embrace ’70s rock and pop flourishes. Squelchy sequencers and doubletracked guitars add drama to “One- Way Conversation”, while handclaps and a fuzzy synth bolster the details in the verses of “Almost Home”. He only stumbles when he gets self-consciously literary on the stodgy “Mr Updike” and the awkward “White Squirrel”.