Every once in awhile you stumble upon an album so fraught with musical beauty that it stays with you for weeks, months, even years. This 2003 release from England’s Departure Lounge, led by Tim Keegan, is one of those. It's an almost implausible convergence of songs and instrumentation, where lovely acoustics and electronic atmospherics (“Straight Line to the Kerb”) mix with Lee Hazelwood–inspired simplicity (“King Kong Frown”) and unironic swoon (“I Love You”). Even remorse sounds gorgeous here (“Silverline”), and a little wink to the group Love goes far; “Alone Again And” might be what a broken heart actually sounds like. The whole album aches and hums like that. Then there’s a true cotton-candy moment in “What You Have Is Good”: a four-minute, four-chord stunner of outright optimism that’ll pull you straight from the dull throb of daily life into a whole world of possibility.