Streetsweeper is the fifth album by New Jersey-born/New York City-based singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist John Andrews and his (first imaginary and now sort of real) backing band The Yawns. Written between bike rides, park shifts, and electric piano meditations, the nine folky indie pop songs carry the dust of everyday life without ever sounding weighed down.

We hear the artist observing the world at half-speed and making it feel full. There’s a looseness here, with jangly guitars brushing up against tender, homespun melodies, that feels both deliberate and unbothered. Close your eyes and start with opening track Something To Be Said, an earworm for the ages. The subsequent tracks drift from unpolished neat to charmingly ragged, held together by easy-going vocals and a soft-focus empathy for small moments. It makes for an ideal spring record.

Streetsweeper—performed and produced by John Andrews—is out now digitally and on vinyl LP through Earth Libraries. Also featuring Noah Bond (drums), Luke Temple (bass, guitar), Keven Louis Lareau (bass), Will Henriksen (fiddle), and Emily Moales (background vocals) on select tracks.

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