My wife got me into Big Wreck when we first started dating, and I’ve enjoyed their first two albums, as well as debut album from frontman Ian Thornley’s band, Thornley.

I just started listening to Big Wreck’s most recent album, Albatross, and it is my favorite of the bunch. The gap between the better tracks and the rest of the album has closed with each album I have heard (I do not have Thornley’s second album Tiny Pictures… yet).

Don’t take my word for it. Listen up: