by Laura Conaway

Crime and the Times - Arrears from crimeandthetimes on Vimeo.

"I'll never own a thing," Crime and the Times sing on their new album, Arrears. "I've got nothing to give but my debt."

The title track makes even me seem optimistic, and I'm one of the people who has to spend all day looking at lousy economic data. On the other hand, the Recession Generation may have just gotten its Nevermind, its College Dropout. I say may have — the answer's in the listening, mine and yours.

(Thanks to listener Nolan Hurley for the link.)