8. Popular Songs (2009): The outstanding 2009 release Popular Songs represents a successful and vastly inventive band still striving to find new frontiers. The highs are enormously high -- "Avalon Or Someone Very Similar" recalls nothing so much as the late and lamented Butterglory, with its insinuating charm. The agreeably goofy "Periodically Double Or Triple" is a delightful digression into garage-soul. Meanwhile, on ...