The Divine Comedy
Since Salty Miss Jill brought up Neil Hannon in the Music Lovers post, here is Neil himself singing his song with "Jill" in the lyrics:
Neil Hannon is the true inheritor of Scott Walker's mantle, though he has a lighter touch: his humor is more sardonic than morbid. (Walker himself now inhabits a different musical planet altogether.) The best Divine Comedy album so far is Casanova, from 1996, which spawned the delightfully wicked single, "The Frog Princess"--
What a cheeky little man! Incidentally, I owe my Divine Comedy fandom to Duncan Sheik, who linked to the DC website from his. Co-incidentally, I heard Duncan's "She Runs Away" at the gas station yet again last week. That song must really make people spend!
