>>127113679The Ballad of Bobby Pyn, Gray Sunset & the title track are the keys that will unlock the album the for you as they did for me. It is a total bummer record but it's such a beautiful, romantic sadness. If you like Cleaners From Venus then The Doldrums should be among your favorite Ariel records because he is at his most sincere. He means every word he sings - it is an album about depression, childhood, self-loathing, and also about its own creation (the lyrical content of Haunted Graffiti refers to this). It's like the antidote to post-modern irony. It is to modern music what The Bible is to Infinite Jest