5. AROUND THE SUN (2004) This is not a popular album, in part because its aw-shucks adult-contempo-ness flirts with the same territory as Train and Rob Thomas and whoever those other similar acts sound like (I don’t actually know what they sound like, so this is mostly a triangulating guess). BUT, there’s some legit world-weary melancholy here if you’re looking for it, and that’s very telling in a time ‘n’ place kinda way.