Loose Fur - Born Again in teh USA

You Were Wrong is also really, really beautiful.

Born Again is straight indie rock in the sense I don't listen to it much. but better than your average indie rock because singers have better vocals (imo) and the folk-rock aspect isn't diluted by having much more folk than rock. But yeah, I still don't find myself listening to this album much.

Mizzell, which O'Rourke sung song do you think sucks? hopefully not 8) Thou Shalt Wilt because the music "sounds like sesame street" (amazon reviewer). That's one of the more redeeming songs on the album.

I remember I downloaded Loose Fur doing a T.Rex cover once.. it was alright, bad sound quality.

It takes a while to follow all the twists and turns in some of the more proggier songs - but they're proggy in a very compact way - no noodling - they tend to have lots of different sections that don't repeat, the songs are short, and they sound deceptively straightforward, due to the clean '70s rock sound and the simple riffs. You hear echoes of lots of great '70s bands on here (Steely Dan, Cheap Trick), but yet it sounds vital - it's not some stale museum piece - an example of re-imagining the tradition.

This is so OTM. "Apostolic" in particular is a perfect piece of micro-prog.

I just revisited this album after several years, mainly in light of O'Rourke's reveal that every sound on it except for vocals was recorded with a Shure SM57 mic, just because he wanted to see how it would sound. And it sounds lovely--warm and cozy but it still rocks. And I love Kotche's vibraphone ornaments throughout. Apparently there's a third album in the can. Hope it comes out someday.