Opening with one of the best bass lines of the past decade, "Dreaming of You" immediately ups the ante by laying down a sweet counter-melody (counter not to the bass line, but to the primary melody of the vocals) from Nick Powers' organ, and then the rest of the band comes in, the guitars playing a rhythm that ping pongs around the bass line, and the drummer holds down the fort. Later, we get the Roger McGuinne-seque guitar solo accompanied by vibes, and we get the baritone sax adding to the rhythm, and in the midst of it all, we get an adept British blue-eyed soul singer singing about...masturbation?Yeah, I think so. But don't worry, the lyric's not too trashy on the surface, and, for the most part, it doesn't get in the way of the one of the best white-boy grooves this side of Spoon. The background vocals tip the sound back about forty years, as they sound like Jay and the Americans, but then again, even Jay and the Americans never struck a groove like this.
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