Grant-Lee Phillips is a veritable one-man army, playing every instrument on Mobilize, which he also co-produced with Carmen Rizzo.Two years since dissolving the critically lauded Grant Lee Buffalo, Phillips launches his solo career with an engaging, deeply passionate album.The set opens with See America, a gentle ballad reminiscent of David Bowie's Space Oddity, here with Bowie's tragic spaceman voyaging in a yellow New York taxi cab.Phillips constructs characters with humor and sensitivity, such as the exhausted journalist on We All Get a Taste and the criminal lovers of the majestic Love's a Mystery. Like a Lover is a pained revelation of the vulnerability love brings, and the ache is soulfully crooned.Conversely, Phillips projects sheer joy on Spring Released and Beautiful Dreamers. At the brink of a new stage in Phillips' career, Mobilize is a classic all his own.- SB - (Billboard Magazine)