There’s still a little bit of lecherousness here, of course, but he’s cutting it with that pure, sweet tenor and by picking up the pace.

His major-label debut, “Kiss Land,” delivers a 50 Cent-style dismissal of romance in favor of carnality, tipping over regularly into comical lecherousness.

Like the conversation in the final hour of a boozy art opening, these small anecdotal essays mix gossip, profundity, bogosity and lecherousness in equal parts.