Jaime Orr’s “Somebody Like You” starts innocently enough, even a bit on the low key side of things. But once it gets going the song builds quickly, adding layer upon layer of sonic goodness, only to hammer things home in a killer chorus. With a Matthew Sweet kind of melodic drone defining what’s up front, you can’t help but appreciate all the little things sprinkled throughout the tune. I love the way the background vocals creep up at various melodic turns. There’s even a bit of B52’s vocal punch here and there. And all along the ringing electric guitar work keeps grinding away, a solid backdrop for everything else that is working overtime here.

Perusing the usual musical services I see a little over a dozen singles from Orr, most wielding solid, chunky electric guitar hooks while a few take up a softer poprock style. Surely there’s enough here for an album? Stylistically I think they fit together as a coherent artist statement, though to my ears he’s really coming into own as a songwriter/performer with recent cuts like “Heartache,” “Not Below You or Above,” and of course “Somebody Like You” in nailing down his powered poprock chops.

Keep your ears open for Ireland’s Jaime Orr. He’s something big about to happen.