This band is essentially the brainchild of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous, and a revolving cast of his cronies. They make strangely beautiful, beautifully weird music that draws from Country Rock, blues, and Soul and adds a cut-and-paste sonic adventurousness to the proceedings, finally winding up someplace that can only be described as "different." Linkous has a penchant for subverting the hooks in his melodies, altering the vocals or piling heaps of sound...  [+]