CROOKED FINGERS - RED DEVIL DAWN (25% OFF)

1 Big Darkness
2 Don't Say a Word
3 You Can Never Leave
4 Bad Man Coming
5 You Threw a Spark
6 Boy with (100) Hands
7 Sweet Marie
8 Angelina
9 Disappear
10 Carrion Doves

Love songs abound on 2003's Red Devil Dawn, but most of the love is dead or dying or at least dirty. That makes sense: Just a few years after his split with indie stalwarts Archers of Loaf, Eric Bachmann had forcefully forged a new identity and sound with Crooked Fingers, and he quickly amassed a catalog of gorgeous, poetic songs about weary losers and broken lives. This is the album that gave their desperation it's most pointed, perfectly detailed homes.