“I had that magic feeling, the same feeling I had before I spun Royal City and June Panic, about Birddog: the feeling that I's about to discover a frumpy diamond or a low-key giant, some music that would give pause to self-mutilating goth tweens and soothe insomniacs learning Latin to improve their tattoos. Maybe I got wooed by their fourth album's portentous cover art-- a photorealistic painting o”