[mp3] I spent a month in sin, neglected all my friends.

Fluid Ounces - "Milk Moustache" (mp3)

Seth Timbs of FL.OZ. (he says they meant the name to be written that way but pronounced in full, but people didn't get it-- "What? Flozz?") has always been a decent songwriter and a good pianist, but on 1997's Big Notebook For Easy Piano, for one album he got the band he needed; for a Fluid Ounces song to work perfectly, it has to sound like the band is having a better time than Timbs is. He's not a wallflower, he's just the guy in the thick of the party who always looks a little preoccupied.

He also gets the passage of time across without verbal setups; get the weight of decades in "Daddy Scruff" or the "man, that was a seriously fucked-up three weeks" look backward in "Record Stack". His downloads page also has the highlights of the other Fluid Ounces records-- "Go Lucky", in particular, ALWAYS impresses me so much I wonder if the rest of that album is better than I remember.