...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Century of Self

2009 album from the Alternative rockers. The Century of Self is epic, and was clearly made without the gimlet eye of a major label A&R person overseeing it. From the soaring instrumental opener, 'Giants Causeway,' to the album's closer, 'Insatiable Two,' which starts off with the sounds of a demented circus and ends with an echoing sing-along about Conrad Keely's lack of monstrosity, the record is a work of tremendous scope and ambition. Fifteen years in to their career, Trail of Dead continues to innovate and grow. At a point where many other bands would be resting on their laurels and half-heartedly tossing off greatest hits comps, Trail of Dead are just getting started.

1) Giant's Causeway
2) Far Pavilions
3) Isis Unveiled
4) Halcyon Days
5) Bells of Creation
6) Fields of Coal
7) Inland Sea
8) Luna Park
9) Pictures of An Only Child
10) Insatiable I
11) Ascending
12) August Theme
13) Insatiable II