My most underrated on that list is Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear. Others are a lot more obvious:

A man named after two men after my own heart! FWIW: The IM albums are on Spotify. Was listening to Broken Ship the other day.

Or even Bob Pollard. But Carl's hit rate is ridiculous. This is a crazy sounding sentence, but whatever: Carl, Britt Daniel and Kanye are the best songwriters of that generation. Caveat: I don't keep enough track of guys like Max Martin who never self-release but a quick look at his wiki suggests he, at least, needs…

If TSW is as forgotten as it seems to me it is, it's a crime. That album kills all the way through. If Todd wanted to make a slatepitch that he could have actually pulled off, he should have said TSW is the best TNP album.

He also has had a solo album in between. And Neko and Dan have both put stuff out since, iirc. Carl comes out with an album every 2 years. Sometimes it's solo, sometimes TNP. Guy is crazy prolific, especially once you throw Zumpano in there.

This seems super slatepitch-y. The quality, interest and sheer density of the melodies on Mass Romantic and Electric Version are far superior to Challengers. It has its charms. I definitely like it. But it's not that it's more opened up. There's just less there. E.g. Kurt Dahle is given much much less to do and it's…