When "Barely Breathing" flew up the charts in 1996, it seemed that Duncan Sheik's career was only going to get bigger and bigger. That didn't happen, but Sheik has kept growing as an artist, and he learned how to balance introspective singer-songwriting material with catchy rock hooks, pairing complex orchestral arrangements with spare instrumentation. Like Lisa Loeb's "Stay" or Natalie Umbruglia's "Torn," "Barely Breathing" was a song that initially struck a chord with alt rock aud...  [+]