While do it afraid doesn’t have the snap and verve of the more structured Ten Fold, there’s a charming coziness to its loose sound. These open-aired songs evoke backyards and block parties ...

His slight new EP, Do It for the Money, strives for a similar effect. But while it does evoke pain, the pain seldom becomes agony, because the music is too muscular, too well-studied, to make his ...