You know Cowboy Dayvan's comment made me break out the album, which I've had for over a year now. It really does stand out as a unique album in that scene at that time period. It has some incredibly surreal lyrics, in which songs contain lyrics about semen being somewhere it shouldn't ("the mountain tops" & "a garden" respectfully). The inclusion of a trumpet for this kind of indie rock album was something I hadn't heard before. Not only that, the vocalist really has a bad voice, but you can hear him trying and that's kind of nice. However his voice also really lends to the songs adding a whole other instrument. I don't usually gush about stuff from this genre, but this is one of those albums that's popular for a reason, it's damn good.
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