Olan Monk - Songs For Nothing

Moin affiliate Olan Monk debuts for AD93 (undeniably the hardest working indie in the land right now) with their fourth (I think) album of doleful, post-grunge bedroom pop that hits the sweet spot between recent Dean Blunt/World Music collaborations (Elias Rønnenfelt, Joanne Robertson, Crying Nudes) and the kind of contemporary 'indie' (ie guitar-led singer-songwriting) that keeps cropping up under the 'CPN+' banner. It's purely an assumption, but I'd imagine Monk's influences extent much further back than the current moment and to the kind of lo-fi, downer rock that lit up the US 90s underground before Kurt shed his mortal coil - Sebadoh, Dino Jr., Eric's Trip et al. Such things are prominently en vogue atm, though Songs For Nothing makes it stick with that unmistakable dulcet drawl delivery and an overall sense of unrelenting moroseness. Proper comfort in being sad business. 
 
FFO: Moin, The Crying Nudes, Elias Rønnenfelt, Mark William Lewis, Sebadoh