Claude says:Semisonic's 1998 debut is pure late-90s alt-pop ease—that era when a band could write the most perfectly bittersweet closing-time anthem and still sneak it onto a million soundtracks without it feeling cheap. You keep coming back to "Closing Time," which says everything about why this record landed the way it did, a song so locked in its own melancholy groove that it doesn't need anything else to work.