It’s common practice for musicians to sing the struggles of everyday people: underdogs and strivers who work for the weekend, love and protect their families, and struggle to stay one step ahead of the boss and the bill collector. But everyday people aren’t monolithic, and some stories are told far more often than others. Just as Fountains Of Wayne’s albums are dotted with the workaday lives of bored commuters and white-collar middle-dwellers, John K. Samson’s music often returns to a kind of intellectual underclass — grad students, quizmasters, deep thinkers — whose potential doesn’t always lend them a pathway out of their own heads.