These ten acoustic songs are wide-eyed innocent Ubie's love note to the world. A tad slower than midtempo, they pair Ubie's tremulous voice with flanged guitar and twee keyboards. If the songs were loopier, they could be written off as the stoned after-effects of Beck's early work. Instead, they are almost startling in their straightforward honesty. Ubie clearly wants to make a difference by opening his listeners' eyes to the world afresh. Titles like "Love is not a Dream" and "For the One I Haven't Met" read like a teenage love note, and that attitude is mirrored in Ubie's timid delivery, which, brimming with fear, longing and excitement, reminds me of an awkward boy asking out his lady-love for the first time. Thankfully, Ubie goes beyond the "boy really wants girl" formula by asking bigger questions about life and loss of innocence. He sometimes overplays his hand by trying too hard to reach the big insight, but it's hard to fault him because he sounds so earnest while doing it. Sometimes a person's simplicity of vision is enough to carry the day, and such is the case here.