A mesmerizing album—the first of five great records released between 1996 and 2002 by this Denver, Colorado band fronted by the mad genius, David Eugene Edwards. There’s a kind of macabre, backwoods spirituality here—served up in a heady brew of punk-inflected country rock. Key songs are “American Wheeze” and “Black Soul Choir.”

A & M, 1996. [All-Music Guide Review]

Here’s #95.