This whole album seems to be about that certain kind of day, with Mason recalling people and events, trying to feel a connection to life when it's clearly difficult.

Putois is basically the one-man acoustic project of Chicago's Bob Mason, and this lo-fi bedroom effort is the sort of thing that could have been boring if Mason didn't have a pretty solid creative aesthetic working in his favor. But fortunately, he does. For one thing, Mason has the unique gift of being able to conjure a mood of aching nostalgia, just from the simplicity of his songs and the sorrowful bent to his voice. For another thing, Mason's recorded most of the 12 songs on The Problem Is Not a Problem Anymore with an unusual amount of echo on the vocals, giving the impression that you're hearing the tunes through a kind of fog of memory, or the state of detachment that comes years after a heartbreak, even though you can very much brood about it still if it's a certain kind of day.