Sam Duckworth’s first full-length Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager remains one of my luckiest discoveries of the past decade. Were it not for the touch of fate that played “I-Spy” on whatever internet radio station I happened to be listening in 2006, I’d probably never have heard one of my favorite songs of that year.

In all the holiday business and last-minute end-of-year listing that I was doing last December, I didn’t even notice that he’d released an awesome new album.

Lucky for me, fate wants us to be together.

I’ve been playing through my iTunes library in alphabetical order (by track title) during the workday. I started with “A-Punk” about a month ago and now I’m about 1/4 of the way towards reaching “Ziggy Stardust.”

So earlier this week I’m listening through the “I”s and right between Ozma’s “I Wonder” and Hum’s “I’d Like Your Hair Long” what should happen to play but that no-one-can-be-too-cool-to-sing-along tune from 2006—”I-Spy.” So as I’m singing along I’m googling “get cape wear cape fly” and much to my delight… finding that he just released a new album.

Yessss…..

The maturity since “Bohemian Teenager” is pretty obvious right from the start of this new eponymous album. Though as any actual bohemian teenager will tell you, maturity isn’t always a good thing. Luckily, in this case it’s not bad.

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly moves effortlessly from folk hymn to dance pop to rock anthem—even in a single song.

Even though the sound has matured, the themes of the record are just as youthful as ever.

I believe that if we were all really honest, we’d discover on some level that we’re stuck in a state of arrested development.

We might force ourselves to behave differently (like as a parent) as we grow older or be the things that really don’t come natural (like boss-butt-kissing)… but when it comes down to it, we still have inherent passions for fun, excitement, revolution…

One of the things I love about being a parent is that I can now play Legos and Transformers and Super Mario… I can do Play-Doh and go sledding and watch cartoons and go to movies like Toy Story and Shrek…

All of the things that society has for some reason convinced us that grown-ups do not do.