A Slight Return - CDR

Like the best American singer-songwriters, Thomas Patrick Maguire tells stories. Influenced equally by melancholy troubadours like Elliott Smith and Nick Drake, and by iconoclastic '90s alternative rock like Sebadoh and Nirvana, he sets his low-key tales of working-class life to deceptively simple stripped-down melodies that haunt the listener long after they've first heard Thomas's music. No wonder New York Newsday has twice lauded him as one of New York's best local artists in its year-end wrap-ups, calling his music "utterly hypnotic." (2007)

01. Mirrors and Smoke
02. Baseball Boatman
03. Pat Gives Me the Post on Sunday
04. Imaginary Trophy
05. Unemployment Dreams
06. Ashamed Again
07. Traffic Jam
08. Like An Idiot
09. One Way, Long Drive
10. Evening News
11. Why You Gotta Do It Too
12. Departed
13. Now She's No Looking Back (Relationship Trigger)
14. Thank You