Usually, when a new album sounds like one previously released by an artist, I complain. I mean, these people are being paid lots and lots of money to come up with palatable, if not good or great, music. And when a "new" CD is made, it shouldn't sound like it's the same thing the musician has done before. I'm not happy about spending money on something I already have.

Norah Jones' new album, Feels Like Home, sounds like her first, Come Away With Me. It would really be more aptly titled Come Away With Me Again. It has the same blues and jazz inspirations. It has the same in-love and lovesick lyrics. It has Jones' unchanged soul-filled voice.

However, I'm not going to complain about this album.

It's excellent.

If you like Come Away With Me and you don't have Feels Like Home yet, go get it.

No, really.

Go. Now.

Feels Like Home feels like Jones has settled into her groove. She's a little more adventurous with rhythm -- nothing dramatic, but just enough change to sound totally comfortable. The relaxed music is perfect for a Sunday morning, waking up at no particular time, hanging out with a cup of coffee, wondering who that is still sleeping in your bed.

"Sunrise," especially, is sure to end up on the soundtrack to some good British romantic comedy, playing in the background of an inevitable morning-after scene.

Jones does a beautiful job of adding her own lyrics to Duke Ellington's "Melancholia" in "Don't Miss You At All." Her gentle voice and graceful words are a fitting companion to Ellington's music, making this the prettiest, purest song on the CD.

Now, clowns and circuses give me the heebie-jeebies, but this little neurosis may have been cured by "Carnival Town," a sweet, smooth tune. OK, probably not, but she does mention clowns, and I like the song nonetheless. That's a pretty big accomplishment. There are few artists out there who can nonchalantly throw a clown reference into a forlorn love song.

Speaking of carnies, Dolly Parton appears on the album. The Dollywood creator might seem like an odd partner for Jones, but the two make "Creepin' In" an enjoyable foray into folk-country. Parton's just cool anyway -- have you seen the So Graham Norton taped at Dollywood? It's a piece of comedic genius. Amazing.

Anyway, Norah Jones.

I'm entirely in awe of her, especially on this CD. She's stretched and evolved just enough on Feels Like Home, making it both fresh and reminiscent of her first great album.

Go forth, buy this album and have a wonderful, relaxing, consumerist day.