Released 20 years ago today, this was the first major-label album from House Of Heroes, one of my all-time favorite bands. House Of Heroes made indie rock with excellent musicianship and the vocals from Tim Skipper are so energetic and passionate. As soon as I listened to this album a few times back in 2005, I became a huge fan of the band and their later albums got even better, though this one is still a solid album. A lot of the lyrics are about personal relationships and love. Though the lyrics are very catchy, they're a bit hard to parse sometimes, like the epic album closer, "Angels In Top Hats, Cups Full Of Blood", which seems to be about death of a friend, maybe in a car accident or something. For some reason, a year later their label re-released this album with a few new tracks and a new title, Say No More, and so it's only available on streaming in that incarnation. But this is the album that I got first on CD and continue to listen to from this highly underrated band.

Release Year: 2005
This album's 2006 re-release with a few new tracks, Say No More, is on streaming:
Listen on Apple Music
Listen on Spotify