If you’ve ever seen Bahamas in concert, you’ll know that, on top of being a charismatically laidback singer and dazzling guitar player, Afie Jurvanen delivers stage banter with the deadpan flair of a seasoned stand-up comedian. So, it’s safe to assume he’s being somewhat cheeky in titling his seventh Bahamas record My Second Last Album—after all, Jurvanen seems like the sort of lifer who’ll be sharing his witty I-just-wasn’t-made-for-these-times commentary and casually dropping brain-bending guitar solos well into his nursing-home years. My Second Last Album is a testament to his resourcefulness: Where his 2023 release, BOOTCUT, saw him heading down to Nashville and surrounding himself with a Music City dream team of veteran session players, this time he stayed close to home in rural Nova Scotia, shacking up in producer Joshua Van Tassel’s tiny backyard studio shed, with the two handling all instrumentation. But the results are no less rich and splendorous than any ensemble Bahamas effort: “The Bridge” sets a text-message-based songwriting collaboration with Hiss Golden Messenger’s MC Taylor to a flute-inflected, gospel-gilded funk strut, while the American-culture satire “Dearborn” dresses up its “Son of a Preacher Man” groove with fuzz-tone licks and falsetto hooks. But on the closing slow-motion serenade “In Country,” Jurvanen removes his tongue from cheek to celebrate his Finnish family’s immigrant experience. “We all belong in this country,” he sings and, likewise, Bahamas’ breezy, soft-rockin’ country-soul welcomes all comers with open arms.