The Silver Jews' new album Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, is wonderful. Funny, beautiful, tender and David Berman has a voice that Nick Cave would kill for. The band should be far better known, but I'm happy with being one of their few fans...
Also listening to dEUS' The Ideal Crash to remind me what a truly great band they can be, a confidence which was rather dented by their most recent release, which I have decided after a few listens is really rather dull, with the exception of a couple of tracks.