Brent Cash hails from Athens, GA, but his debut album sounds like he was born and raised in Hawthorne, CA. How Will I Know If I'm Awake bubbles and bursts with songs slathered in classic West Coast sunshine pop, replete with overflowing bah-bah-bah vocals that invoke memories of the late Carl Wilson's milky inflections. To make for an outing that sounds authentically 1968, this album was recorded on two-inch analogue tape with a scaled down orchestra that made good use of a horn section, elegantly arranged strings, piano and a skilled harpist — all of which serve to build on a foundation of sophisticated but playful baroque pop that could be easily mistaken for bygone Emitt Rhodes solo recordings, most notably "Digging The Fault Line." "Everything That's Grey" opens with barbed melodies, breezy harmonies and fey vocals reminiscent of Curt Boettcher's recordings with Sagittarius and The Millennium. Even if Burt Bacharach somehow reassembled The 5th Dimension, it couldn't sound any better than the bombastic "Only Time," where the male/female vocals are intertwined with such joyous harmony that you can actually hear them smile.