New age and world music aren’t the easiest genres to garner popularity and notoriety from, but Joss Jaffe has bucked that trend with his recent musical output. After his last album Meditation Music debuted at #3 on the Billboard New Age Albums Chart in 2019, Jaffe has returned with its very worthy follow up Sun Mountain Sea, his fifth proper album. The songs feel positive and purposeful, with a spiritual aesthetic that is blended very effectively with modern pop sensibilities. The vocals couldn’t be any smoother, and the lyrics any more dazzling, covering topics such as unrequited love, spiritualism, innocence, overcoming adversity, and surviving as a working class musician. For Sun Mountain Sea, Jaffe collaborated with DJ Taz Rashid, with the record’s ten songs building off of the two art...