There are a few things you should know about Jordan Seven, particularly as they apply to his latest album, 7. For starters, the dude’s not playing around. Just science the man’s name, the title of the release and, if you so dare, the symbolism in the material’s artwork (which boasts a five-headed dragon).

Secondly, he’s the type of musician who knows exactly what he’s doing. So, not surprisingly, he takes his time—in more ways than one. You won’t find a single tune on this collection that’s substantially less than eight minutes long. More to the point, perhaps, there’s more than one of them that exceeds 10 minutes.

To top it all off, Seven takes his time on the individual tracks themselves—notwithstanding their duration. Some of his best numbers (such as “A New Morning” and “So Far Away”) are just a beat or two past slow-paced. Yet somehow they move, with a steady rhythm that, in more than one of these songs, is directly attributed to the star of the show on this piece—Seven’s guitar playing.

On “Morning” and “Zephyr Girl”, it’s acoustic. “Morning” is exemplary in this regard as it’s doused in a sparkling shiny-sounding rhythm guitar, the stuff that the best parts of romantic comedy movies are comprised of, perhaps when people are driving, holding hands, and definitely living up the good times. Seven rides that bad boy for nearly 12 minutes long, joined every now and again by a female background vocalist, on a number that’s simply too good to let go of any earlier.

The similarities between “Morning” and “So Far Away” are as palpable as their differences are. Both have deliciously heavy-handed drumming and are about the same tempo. The guitar is front and center on each of them, although on the latter it’s an electric guitar. Seven gets a gang of credit for twerking this like a rhythm guitar as deftly as any acoustic one was ever played.

“Away” is primed for the score to a movie or two as well, but this time for the breakup scene, or more specifically, the part in the plot in which the conflict sunders the leads in the romantic comedy from each other, with patent, gripping passion. Imagine the scene in which U2’s “All I Want is You” takes over Reality Bites to spectacular effect.

And thus it goes for Seven. This is music to feel, think to, reflect, and even act upon. Give it a whirl and you’ll see what we mean.