Palm Springs: No hurt like a broken heart (2009)
The album perfectly illustrated the duo’s panoramic vision for their music, with acoustic guitars resting alongside car-boot electronica, melancholic cellos with timpani drums, melodicas with aging pianos, the lush bedroom orchestration to painfully honest lyrical confessions of loss and regret. The album was dedicated to their friend and cellist, Alice MacGill who was killed in Thailand during the early months of recording.
Recommended if you like
Mercury Rev,
The Flaming Lips,
The Tindersticks.