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Pensacola -- a panhandle Gulf town best known for hosting hurricanes, evangelicals, and post-hardcore bands -- is a tough home base for a surreally gothic alt-country crooner with a Gram Parsons bent.

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Bauhaus may have godfathered goth at the end of the 1970s, but their combustive early dance singles like "Kick in the Eye" could give most current disco-rock trendies a smackdown.

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Alternative-rock vets Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan managed to transcend '90s grunge with the Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees, respectively. Dulli now does business as the Twilight Singers, while Lanegan makes solo albums and lends his nicotine-scarred pipes to other people's albums, including Queens of the Stone Age's and Dulli's. Both struggled with drug abuse—they lived, friends didn't.

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Time to finally face the music, Malkmus mavens: Your hero may not make a great post-Pavement disc.

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After gussying up her early tunes for the 2002 major-label bomb The Golden State and drifting in more eclectic directions on 2005's Manzanita, the Los Angeles songwriter goes back to acoustic basics for a quietly unified seventh album that documents a doomed relationship with devastating restraint.