This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Just like old Hank, the boys in San Diego country-goth trio Black Heart Procession are so lonesome they could cry. But that’s all they have in common.
While these boys definitely have a tear in their beer in this second CD, their grim tales of torment and desolate, funereal melodies have less to do with the country twang of Williams than the tragic balladry of Will Oldham — perhaps with a dash of Tom Waits on the side, thanks to some compellingly rustic instrumentation in the form of wheezing pump organs, weeping saws and clanking sheet metal. All they want to know is why you don’t love them like you used to do.
