Self-deprecation at its coolest and most self-deprecating.

“This is how losers feel/ I am a loser/ And you‰’re here to remind me‰” sings Jenn Ghetto (producing not at all ghetto music), originally a member of Carissa‰’s Weird, a Seattle-based band.

She departed from the group in 1997 to do her own thang. “Loser,‰” the song containing the aforementioned lyrics, is a rather bleak opening to the album, but track three, “Vampires,‰” represents a more typical indie rock song; however the lyrics are still seething with hipster self-loathingness: “I‰’m crazy/ you‰’re fucked up.‰Û

A rather unusual aspect of the album is the one-minute guitar solo, track four, which isn‰’t exceptional or eccentric at all, but it‰’s certainly something I‰’d like to be playing in the background of a biopic film about myself as I walk across the beach on an overcast day, an oversized cable-knit sweater swallowing my body and a cup of earl grey tea in my hand.

RIYL: The Submarines, Rainer Maria, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Carissa‰’s Weird
Recommended: 3, 4, 5