...Cunningham has written entire songs about the pleasures of hauling buckets of water, so Addington isn't exactly Elliott Smith. Nonetheless, the album flirts with quiet tragedy. "Before You Go" is beautifully sad. Addington, writing from...

...ridiculously sad, either, and rocking just a little -- seems to have become a mix staple, along with Franz Ferdinand, Elliott Smith and Bright Eyes. The latter artist, along with Bruce Springsteen and R.E.M., was at the center of the Vote...