Claude says:Ray LaMontagne's 2006 debut wrapped folk-soul weathering in fingerpicked guitar and that grainy, whiskey-soaked voice—the kind of record that arrived in the mid-aughts when indie folk was still finding its footing. You kept coming back to Empty and Be Here Now across nearly two decades, those tracks hitting different depending on what year you needed them, the whole album built for the kind of late-night replaying that doesn't feel like a choice.