“Captain Badass” is one of indie’s great seduction songs (it even features an electric moment of consent!); it’s a serene outlier in this collection that will put you through the emotional wringer. Songs about death, abuse, divorce and aging would be hard to take if not for their precise, considered lyricism. Just a few examples - Mount Eerie’s bare, tenacious peek into a grieving heart; the repetition of ‘hope’ on the superficially hopeless “No Children”; the boiling, bottled empathy of “Black”; and a celebratory metaphor in “Furr” that only glances at something lost.