Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
Spurred by Mark Linkous' suicide, please check out It's A Wonderful Life. I only very recently started listening to this record, despite multiple attempts by my old lady to turn me on. I didn't connect with it at first. I've now come to find it to be a gorgeous record, deeply melancholic, but also melodic and very, very rich. I rather enjoy it's listening experience from headphones; sonically speaking, it's very intelligent.
Also see Dark Night of the Soul.
