Starkly naming a record Songs Album II is only an appropriate detour for a musician and composer like Aaron MF Olson. Sharing a sensibility with fellow “song” records by the likes of Jim O’Rourke or Van Dyke Parks, Olson’s conscious definition of such is a moving panorama: lavish, engaging and downright clever at the same time. With its flowering avant-pop arrangements, twisting ballads and warmly inviting hooks move effortlessly alongside pastoral landscapes where exotica meets Americana.