20. Bill Callahan – Too Many Birds (2009)
Callahan’s first album under his own name, Woke on a Whaleheart, was a surprising – and for some fans alienating – deviation into good cheer, but lugubrious business as usual returned on its follow-up, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, as evidenced by Too Many Birds. This splendidly stark song mordantly reflects on the impossibility of finding your place in the world.
