Being from Woodstock,N.Y., perhaps it was destiny that Rogue Wave’s Zach Rogue would make hook-laden music that sounds straight out of an era when Woodstock was more than a farm town. But it is a good thing he did nonetheless.

On his new album “Out of the Shadow” (Sub Pop, 2004), Rogue throws in enough psychedelica to make everyone break out those long discarded rose-colored glasses. Every melody is punctuated with gigantic, catchy choruses, every chord change drenched in reverb or background noise of some sort. What results is an updating of the ’60s sound for today’s over-stimulated generation.

Rogue loves the pop, but he knows there have been light years of improvements on instruments, rec-ording techniques and acceptable limits of music as “art” since then. He has jam-packed every song with organ drones, nifty synth lines and electronic sounds on top of the old chirping birds and 12-string guitars.

This meddling makes the depth of sound impressive, but some of the songs lack from the constant turns and different sounds. “Every Moment,” the opener, is a prime example of this. Although the song has a wonderfully catchy melody, the mood of the song changes so often it gets buried. One minute the drums are thundering, the next they back off into the mix to unleash a swooping chorus and the song ends in a drone of white noise.

As the rest of the album shows, Rogue is not worth giving up on. He has enough ideas and musical talent to make it an interesting listen, and a lot of good songwriting. “Seasick on Land” features a great chorus held together by some quirky guitar noodling and voice goofiness, revealing a shell of the first track’s blastoff.

If you are into old form “pop” music, “Out of the Shadow” is worth a listen for the consistency in songwriting, mixed with a bit of experimentation out of left field. As summer swings into the “dog days,” there is no better soundtrack to those lazy afternoons.