Thrice covering Tom Waits. Needless to say, this made my day.

The Vespers

It's the Civil Wars meets the Avett Brothers in some sweet-as-sugar bluegrass pop. Thankfully songs like "Winter" and "Footprints in the Snow" balance out the sweet with some bitter. I especially like the worship theme that is present throughout the album. "Got No Friends" and "Grinnin in Your Face" are album highlights.

We were sons of insurrection, doomed to face the dark alone.

'Till vicarious perfection, dearly won, was made our own.

So where's your landslide, where's your victory?

Tell me now, where's your sting?

Unassailable you waited, the great enemy of man,

'till your awful jaws were sated,

and we were ransomed from your hand.

Now that you have been disarmed, we can cross over unharmed.

Disarmed, by Thrice