Music has always floated around Michael Cera. It’s been a part of nearly every movie he’s done, and he has personally performed with the likes of Weezer. Now, the kid is finally striking out with an album of his own, and the result is phenomenal.

Crave Online described Michael Cera’s True That as “lo-fi bedroom pop”, a categorization that would cause one’s head to spin upon an initial read. There are some forms of music that are almost too avant-garde to place into any one particular category, and while True That can’t be put into any one particular box, what Cera is attempting is far from the experimental realm. The album is by and large an instrumental one, with only a scant few of the songs featuring written lyrics, the highlight being the gentle yet semi-melancholy “Ruth” (“O what a dear my dear girl might have been”). The overall album has a very whimsical, summer breeze kind of vibe to it: It’s mellow, lighthearted, and, like many of the movies that Cera himself has starred in, full of spirit. A labor of love that soothes the soul, Michael Cera’s True That is the debut album that nobody expected but everybody wanted.