Claude says:Before These Crowded Streets caught you in 2006, eight years after DMB laid down this restless, texturally ambitious record—the one where they leaned hard into their jazz-rock DNA and stopped trying to be the easy festival band. You kept coming back to Rapunzel and Crush, tracks that prove the album's real power lives in its quiet, serpentine arrangements rather than the sing-along moments everyone else fixates on.