José González has been making music since his hardcore days in the early '90s. It's hard to hear that influence now: His sparse bedroom folk is seemingly designed for mellowing out and taking in the summer sunset from a dock on the edge of a serene blue lake. But it's more nuanced than that, too. The Scandinavian songwriter's adept finger-picking softly swirls and loops into beautiful melodies, giving his gentle voice the time and space to lull you into deep states of blissfulness, as he did on his 2003 breakthrough, Veneer. If you think Swedish massages are relaxing, just wait until you hear this.