Friendly Fire is Sean Lennon’s second album, coming eight years after his debut, Into the Sun. These 10 dreamy, rainy day songs unfold at a relaxed pace, giving the album a certain warmth and richness with good melodies, clever arrangements, and nicely layered strings, piano, organ and guitars floating in and out to create a slightly whirling effect. Lennon’s flat, understated vocal delivery doesn’t lend much emotional weight to these breakup songs with the result that some of them come across as rather cheerful despite the melancholy lyrics about betrayal and the loss of love. There are some great moments here, such as the catchy, handclap-driven “Headlights,” the gentle bounce of “Wait For Me,” the inventive, spaced-out take on Marc Bolan’s “Would I Be the One” (the album’s only cover song), and the orchestral build up on “Falling Out of Love.” Though it may or may not be exactly the one he was shooting for, Lennon does succeed in capturing a mood here, making Friendly Fire a finely structured and rewarding album.