In 2016, Dublin-born singer-songwriter and former busker Gavin James said he was bored of breakup songs, hoping that the title track from his 2015 album, Bitter Pill, would be the last one he wrote. While he’s not quite stuck to that ambition—“Always” aches with regret for a lost relationship—this follow-up pulses with more optimism than Bitter Pill’s pop-rock snapshots of sorrow. Fitted with electronic flourishes, “Glow” captures the anxious excitement of new love, the Springsteen-inspired “Hearts On Fire” passionately urges a long-distance relationship to survive and the acoustic “Put You Back Together” gently pledges support for someone else’s troubled soul.