Kid Silver's "Dead City Sunbeams"Is awesome.
the opening track goes from beatiful to erie all in 4 to 5 minutes, the instrumentation is pretty good, dense chock full or diferent little things happeing all over the place, the other tracks are good , but really nothing quite reaches the sheer awesomeness of the opening track.
the singer used to be in a 90's band called "rollerskate skinny" (batbrain might know it...you're scottish right dude?)
edit: no, you're Irish

with none other than kevin shields brother or cousin or whatever.
it's one of those rare albums that came out a while ago (1999) but it doesn't fell dated at all. some of the stuff that's happening now, you just know that you'll listen to it later on and go "geeeeeesh" but this doesn't have that "in sound of now" feel and you can't really classify it easily.
plus the guy's voice is great, and it's rare nowadays to find a band whose singer can can actually...you know, sing (art brut, I'm looking at you)