Claude says:Counting Crows' 1996 sophomore album caught that mid-90s moment when alternative rock bands could be introspective and massive at once, all those layered guitars and Adam Duritz's wandering voice cycling through regret and longing. You've kept coming back to "Angels Of The Silences" and "A Long December" over twenty years—the kind of songs that hit differently depending on what you're nursing at 2 a.m.