Dreamy tempos and dreamy guitar tones can lull you into a false sense of calm and then erupt into a heavy electric presence on producer, guitarist and songwriter Sam Cohen’s solo debut. Cohen, a founding member of Apollo Sunshine and Yellowbirds, has worked with Bob Weir and Cass McCombs, and he was a member of the house band on the recent massive Day of the Dead tribute album. Cohen also produced the most recent record by Kevin Morby, which this record brings to mind, as if Cool It were its more jubilant cousin. The DNA of Neil Young’s “Down by the River” curls through a few of Cohen’s songs here, even if the production is much more elaborate than Neil’s rough-hewn approach. This is psychedelic pop, produced with a surprising punch, conveyed with heavy fuzz, swelling synths, loads of tremolo, handclaps and flickering organ backgrounds. Cohen likes to toggle between three-beat and four-beat sections within the same song—a very Beatles-y move. It’s a close-listen kind of record, with curious stereo separation of the drums and intricate ear-catching interplay between guitar and keyboard in places. Elsewhere, slapback echo on the snare drum creates its own strange call-and-response effect. It’s rare to hear an album that’s both so trippy and so impeccable-sounding. Many tracks, like “A Farewell to Arms,” require at least two listens, one for the complexity of the production and another for the subtlety of the songwriting.