New Artist of the Year winner Paul Colman Trio returns with big ideas and scaled-back sounds on the group's sophomore album, One.

Unlike the over-produced New Map of the World, which never quite captured PC3's enjoyable live sound effectively, One goes for a less-is-more approach, and does a better job of representing who this group is, artistically. Producer Brent Milligan's understated approach sounds very much as if the group recorded most of the instruments live, with some mild programming and other subtle effects worked in for good measure.

One is a solid step forward for Paul Colman Trio, that takes everything that worked about the group before, makes it better, and throws out the rest. The time and thought that Colman puts into his lyrics, from concept to completion, is uncommonly thorough.