Shack: Here's Tom With The Weather (2003)

Here's a truly gorgeous album from a band that, as far as I can tell, has never gotten much (any?) attention here in the States.

Shack are fronted by Liverpool-based brothers Michael and John Head. They originally formed the Pale Fountains, another UK act with little footprint, releasing two fantastic 80s albums of jangly, literate, haunting Britpop, sort of blending the Smiths and Talk Talk and Paul Weller and the Housemartins, with hints of the Cure. They later formed on again/off again act Sha...