Released almost 40 years to the day that The Jam’s debut arrived, Weller’s latest solo excursion extends an absorbingly experimental stretch of records that began with 2008’s 22 Dreams. A Kind Revolution is the warmest album of that run—unflaggingly catchy and optimistic, yet exploratory enough to stretch from punchy cosmic rock (“Nova”) to brooding, Boy George-assisted funk (“One Tear”) and the ruminative psych-gospel of “The Cranes Are Back”. At the tail end of his 50s, the Modfather sounds as invigorated and inventive as ever.