Claude says:Greg Laswell is a San Diego singer-songwriter who came up through the local scene in the late '90s before going solo in 2003 — his albums landed on Vanguard and became go-to soundtrack picks for nighttime TV dramas. This 2009 set reworks songs by Echo & the Bunnymen, Kate Bush, and Kristin Hersh with bare piano and his warm baritone. You got into it a year after release and played it heavily through late 2010, though it faded by early 2011.