Grant-Lee Phillips is a veritable one-man army, playing every instrument on Mobilize, which he also co-produced with Carmen Rizzo.Two years since dissolving the critically lauded Grant Lee Buffalo, Phillips launches his solo career with an engaging, deeply passionate album.The set opens with "See America," a gentle ballad reminiscent of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," here with Bowie's tragic spaceman voyaging in a yellow New York taxi cab.Phillips constructs characters with humor and sensitivity, such as the exhausted journalist on "We All Get a Taste" and the criminal lovers of the majestic "Love's a Mystery." "Like a Lover" is a pained revelation of the vulnerability love brings, and the ache is soulfully crooned.Conversely, Phillips projects sheer joy on "Spring Released" and "Beautiful Dreamers." At the brink of a new stage in Phillips' career, Mobilize is a classic all his own.- SB - (Billboard Magazine)

1. See America
2. Humankind
3. Love's a Mystery
4. Sadness Soot
5. We All Get a Taste
6. Spring Released
7. Lazily Drowning
8. Like a Lover
9. Mobilize
10. Beautiful Dreamers
11. Sleepless Lake
12. April Chimes