Kalamazoo-born Jason Singer is a pop savant whose approach to melodies and confident yelp can handle 21st-century rock anthems as well as vulnerable ballads. On Over Before You Know It, the second full-length from his project Michigander, he picks up the blueprint laid down by Born in the U.S.A.-era Springsteen and The Killers’ arena-raisers, resulting in an album that has modern touches—nepo-baby complaints, eye-rolling about guest-list vampires—yet feels instantly timeless. Singer’s hook-studded rockers, which include callbacks to Britpop’s late-’90s heyday (the chugging “Good Things”, the fist-raising ode to savouring the moment “Over Before You Know It”) and the early days of indie sleaze (“OH GOOD!”), are playful yet sincere, giving heft to his more introspective moments like the contemplative “Freaking Out”. True to its title, Over Before You Know It is brief—it clocks in at around 33 minutes—but Singer’s taut songwriting makes it worth more than one revisit.