Every now and then an album comes along that is both instantly likeable and increasingly rewarding with each and every listen. For now, that album is The Grecian Urns’ LOVEDREAM. It is a 45-minute, harmony drenched, folk-pop jewel that glistens with touching songs about family (“Summer Salt”), chasing freedom (“The Waitress”), and what it means to live and love amongst the Spanish moss and sweltering heat of the Sunshine State (“Indian River”).

Every track on this ten-track offering expounds on the groundwork the Urns laid down on 2008’s Fair Youth Beneath Fair Trees EP, and you can credit producer David Norris for helping the band engineer a sound that trades Fair Youth’s sometimes grainy, thin sound for a hearty slice of sonic goodness. With headphones on, the brass blasts on cuts like “Muhammad Ali” and “Breezy Bayou” sound like the Memphis Horns are practicing in your kitchen. He even makes the whistle-laden closing passage of “We Are Stories” feel like there’s a revival going on in your living room.

The Bay area seven-piece credits The Sugar Oaks’ Steve Hobbs – their high school English teacher – with giving them the inspiration to capture the “Florida mystic” on tracks like “Indian River” and “These Shores Are My Home”. The former paints a picture redfish prowling the waters of a glistening Loxahatchee River, but it’s the latter’s observation of what it truly means to be Floridian that makes us remember why we won’t ever leave despite the 95-degree days and 99 percent humidity. Over staccato guitar and a breezy flute part, Bryce McGuire matter-of-factly delivers lines like “you say you know this place because you’ve got those mosquito bite, me I was raised here breathin’ pollen from a mean old oak." Amen brother. Toss in the fact that the song boasts a rhythmic breakdown that hardcore bands couldn’t touch, and you’ve easily got the ten-song set’s most memorable tune.

While more Floridian images and stories of family are spun within LOVEDREAM, it’s the group’s reverent lyrics on the title track and “Comfort” that make this release truly memorable. The Grecian Urns aren’t bible thumpers by any means, and the fact that they believe in God’s everlasting love shouldn’t be the reason you leave this release on repeat. It’s the way these twentysomethings deliver lines about not wasting life away and leaving “rambling ways” behind that make you wonder where all this insight actually came from.

Whether or not the Urns are divinely inspired or not, you would be hard pressed not to find a reason to thank someone that they got to record their LOVEDREAM for all to hear.