Best known as one half of the Chicago rock duo Local H, Scott Lucas wrote half the songs for his first solo album during a week-long separation from his girlfriend, emailing a song a night in the hope of reconciliation. With the core of a new album written, Lucas summoned an unlikely combination of accordion, violin, piano and horns to flesh out these heartfelt pleas. A cover of Bob Dylan’s uncompromisingly bitter “Positively 4th Street” not-so-subtly upends the meditative quake of majestic tunes such as “Cut a Hole,” “Stolen Umbrellas,” “What Fools Allow” and “Chin Up, Kid” where Lucas’ quieter side finds a receptive home, lost in the star-gazing harmonies and smooth rhythms that were somehow recorded mostly over one weekend in Chicago. “Extra Special Bitter” adds a sharp, splintering feedback-laden guitar solo to spike up the mix. But mostly this is a quiet, reflective album that wouldn’t sound out of place among singer-songwriter albums of the ‘70s.