Got to give credit to the Handsome Furs for creating an album in Sound Kapital that is obviously in debt to the synth pop, new wave and alternative pop sounds of the mid-80s but that still manages to sound fresh and contemporary at the same time. Not sure I’d vote for it on my short list ballot but I was kind of digging this. Unfortunately, this husband and wife duo apparently just split up after six years just as their album was being awarded this accolade. Talk about poor timing!

Dig what you heard with those two tracks? Then hit the jump for an embed of the entire album for streaming via RDIO (preview snippets only for non-RDIO subscribers). And oh, I tagged this NSFW based on the album cover art above. Apparently, it riled someone down South of the border (my guess: the chief music buyer at Walmart) because the art on the RDIO embed has completely different art.