The Twilight Singers: Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers

If you ever needed an excuse to wear black suits and sunglasses, this is your chance. Not that anyone needs an excuse really, more of a score for drinking in an empty bar on a well lit city avenue. The Twilight Singers started as a side project of Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli and several friends that evolved into his full time band. "Twilight" was reworked and co-produced by Fila Brazillia which is one of the reasons that it sounds so different from their later works.

This is such a supremely melancholy album that it makes want to cry. If it weren't for the nice fat Big Beats propping it up, it would be a suicidal depressing endeavor. Instead it comes out as emotionally sincere, darkly sexy and extremely listenable.

This is a fine wine of an album, layers of flavor requiring the utmost attention to gain its full impact. This album is writing poetry and crying with The Postal Service, Portishead, Massive Attack and Radiohead.

Good for: Driving old cars down new streets, singing fresh lyrics over new beats.