the latest, and thus, best

DCFC.
I bought sight-unheard the album before this latest one.
It's called Transatlanticism. Actually, that's not entirely true. I had heard one song from TAism several years ago. Anyway, I digress.
The music has really grown on me. I mean, I liked it the first time I heard it, but over the last few days it's kindof grown into me.

This morning I read the lyrics. There were a few gems that I had undoubtedly picked up on my repeated listenings over the past few days, but this is a whole other ballgame. I think Benjamin Gibbard... I don't know how to put it. He writes exactly like I want to. It's like I've commissioned him to write these songs for me. Every song on TAism is like this. There's no Skp-Song here...

This may be a bit premature, but I have a feeling I will be bumping one of my Big 5 to make room for DCFC. ('But Scott! After one album!?!?') I know, I know. But it's the right time and the right place, you know? I mean, listen to this:

Our youth is fleeting, old age is just around the bend and I can't wait to go gray
And I'll sit and wonder of every love that could have been
If I'd only thought of something charming to say
This is the sound of settling.

you can't front on that.