Jones retains his reservation at the top of the American primitive class of guitarists, blending a signature classic country, finger-picking style with modern elements; the use of dissonance and non-standard tunings evoke an eeriness which completes the quiver of human experience he covers from corner to corner in his songs, each a story.

Recorded, sound-un-proofed, in a house on the banks of Rancocas Creek, in his native New Jersey, Fleeting is in some lights a celebration of a number of the female figurines in Jones' life; Cleo, the new baby of his friend; his own mother; and the mother of the natural surroundings of both New Jersey and Spokane, Washington. Opening and lead single track "Flower Turned Inside Out" begins the theme of femininity with the natural sweet and lightheartedness of Jones' strumming, culminating in the calming and maternally lilting lullaby of the final cadence.

"In Durance Vile" explores the darker complexities of Jones' modernist capabilities, blending atonality and contorting formality to conjour all of Salome's seductive powers of lustful entrapment. This track was in fact inspired by a three poem sequence by painter Wassily Kandinsky and has intentions, as Jones himself puts them, like Salome's 'absurd, playful... and sometimes cruel.'

The sweet and the bitter, like on previous albums, are also frequently infused, such as on the deeply personal and again, feminine, "Mother's Day". The rambling and omnipresent bassline gives a sense of continuity, while the blossoming high strums and bending stacattoed passages demonstrate the growth and eventual decay of our 'fleeting' joys and the grief their twisting fate and brevity can bring.

Listeners tango through the dramatic Spanish inspired mystery and eroticism of "Gone Before" and wind-up back in the natural, yet magical realm in the mildly psychedelic "Spokane River Falls", a dizzying banjo ditty echoing in its production techniques, not owing the free flowing water effect, to Led Zeppelin IV.

Fleeting is, in sum, an art in the sweet and wholesome worship of nature, it's comforting highs and dark, confusing depths encompassing all the brief human relationships it gives birth to and provides a stage for.