The second album by Boston’s Art Decade (named for an early David Bowie song) is well produced and smartly paced and mixed, often sounding like Richard Swift could have been at the controls. Frontman Ben Talmi, who coproduced, spent some years at Berklee College of Music, and it shows. The guy knows how to go for both gusto and subtlety, as well as that sweet, soft center that the best pop music aims for. Real strings (violins, cellos), keyboards, mandolin, and rich layers of guitar are all at work in Art Decade’s brand of orchestral pop. With a winsome, gentle voice and songs that glimmer like a trickling late-summer creek (“Walking Together”) or soar to intense denouements only to unspool most gracefully (“Need You Yesterday”), Art Decade feel poised to move into the realm of Bands That Rule. The single “No One’s Waiting” is sheer radio heaven, a tune begging for great, big sing-alongs and hopeful, arm-waving dance moves. Kudos to all the string players (students at Berklee) and to Talmi’s sidekick and bassist Binod Singh, who helped shape this collection.