[mp3] your ex-girlfriend told me you'd been having a hard time

For reasons not entirely clear, Download.com is offering all of American Music Club's amazing Everclear for free. This was one of my favorite records in college; Mark Eitzel had just reached the level of success where people start bringing in inappropriate 'name' producers, and the massive amount of echo applied to everything on this album has divided fans ever since. I think it's perfect; the echo creates a feeling of being in some particular *place*, but just where is never clear. I could never pick a favorite between this and Mercury, but Mercury is both funnier and more pained, with black humor used to push deeper into misery. Everclear is sad but content, luminous even in the corner of a dive bar.

[Download here. The first track, "Another Morning", is from a different record; the other eleven are posted in the right order, though they don't have ID3 tags, so you may have to recreate the running order yourself.]