Agreed, probably my favourite album of the year.
The song writing is excellent - "Elephant" has to be the best song written about cancer - anyone who has lost someone close to this awful disease will get it.
"Songs that she sang in the shower" - is a breakup song but brilliantly observed and written, here's the opening lines
On a lark, on a whim,
I said “There’s two kinds of men in this world and you’re neither of them”
And his fist cut the smoke
I had an eighth of a second to wonder if he got the joke
In the car headed home
She asked if I had considered the prospect of living alone
With a steak held to my eye
I had to summon the confidence needed to hear her goodbye,
And another brief chapter without any answers blew by