Has anyone tried to tell The Cave Singers the Seventies are over? No? Well done, keep it that way ´cause I’m quite enjoying this forty minutes of time travelling.

“Welcome Joy” is a warm, relaxing album to enjoy with your favourite bourbon in an old fashioned bath tub on a winter night. A slightly more rock influenced sound at times than their debut “Invitation Songs,” “Welcome Joy” holds on to that southern folk blues sound reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel and The Seeds, and if Sky Saxon hadn’t sadly passed away, I could swear I could hear him somewhere in ‘Leap.’

There’s not much left from band members’ past experiences with indie pop and punk outfits like Pretty Girls Makes Graves, this is mostly for those of you who have been missing Bob Dylan and Fleetwood Mac. There’s not much of their home-town of Seattle either, surely none of its cold weather and big city roads, although I could see them gracing the atmosphere of the legendary Crocodile Cafe. However, “Welcome Joy” is an album that would find its niche in any record collection in my opinion. Positive, well written and executed, you could fall in love with it or just keep it as a romantic background for a candlelight dinner.

“Welcome Joy” is for its own musical nature one of those albums that tends to fade a bit into one long, dreamy soundtrack, and it makes it hard to pick highlights. Personally, I particularly loved the opening track ‘Summer Light,’ ‘VV’ and the rockier ‘Townships’.

Is "Welcome Joy" worth your hard earned cash? I would definitely say it is. And if you don’t like it, trust me, your squeeze will, especially if accompanied by a vanilla scented candle and a bottle of your best red.