Dan Flynn AKA Major Chord nails it with Psychic Civil War, hitting the songwriting gold he had previously hinted on his first two full-length albums. Psychic Civil War is deftly executed; Flynn’s penchant for emotive, acoustic anthems never clearer and never better articulated. A social worker by day, husband, father and musician by night, Dan throws all of his experience and observation onto the table through a limber set of tunes headed up by the exquisite Two Young Lovers and the glorious, densely laden Gather All This Love. Some of the sublime technical dexterity of his other current musical project, Children of the Wave, airs here too, and the title track bares some reference to the brilliance of that duo with its down tempo, cyclic glory shining. Psychic Civil War is the kind of album that you’d expect from an international touring artist of note, not from a gentle, bearded fellow from Reservoir. That fact aside, Flynn’s thoughts and whispers, secrets and wisdom coming together so successfully here make for one truly significant release.