Comparisons to Death Cab For Cutie, Pete Yorn, and the would-be yupster movement aside, Eric James is in many ways a throw back. Melding the earthy, rock n roll aesthetic of Bruce and his E Street Band with the progressive college pop of Coldplay, Ben Folds and Badly Drawn Boy, James gains a somewhat unique dichotomy: arty pop music without shoe gazing pretensions. While I get a lot of comparisons to Coldplay, which these days seems to go hand in hand with touching a piano at any point in the set...