Claude says:August and Everything After arrived in '93 as this earnest, string-laden alternative-rock heartbreak that felt older than it was—Adam Duritz's neurotic rambling over shuffling acoustics and that bruised-gold production became its own era instantly. You've kept coming back to Mr. Jones and Round Here like they're old friends, the kind of songs that settle into your rotation and never quite leave, each replay finding something new in the fingerpicking and the ache.