Dany Bédar flexed his bass-playing chops in the '90s as a member of Montreal jazz-rock fusionists Le Chicane, but since going solo in the early 2000s, he's traded rhythmic exploration for emotional introspection and found his true calling as a master balladeer. Bédar swaddles his smooth, unwaveringly sensitive voice in gentle acoustic strums, featherlight piano taps, and tasteful string arrangements—while occasionally dropping a perfectly timed, arena-baiting electric guitar solo to get those cigarette lighters hoisted.