Claude says:Conor O'Brien launched Villagers the day after his previous band broke up, hungover, and by 2010 had a Mercury Prize–nominated debut that made him one of Ireland's sharpest indie folk songwriters. This early EP came out in 2009, before all that recognition — spare, literate folk with a bit of Bright Eyes in the DNA. You gave it one play in August, drawn to "Did You Know?" but never circled back.