With songs written and recorded straight out of a solitary cabin in Wisconsin, this "underdog" band released this miracle of an album in 2007. Lead man, Justin Vernon wrote each of the 10 songs alone in his father's cabin after suffering a painstakingly beautiful breakup. Each song tells of heartache and are all full of poetry-esque lines of lyrics that are so powerful and moving that they could toss you across an ocean. The single off the album, "skinny love", tells of a love hanging on by a thread. Everyone goes through breakups, and everyone knows they can be painful. This indie-folk-acoustic mix of one man's pure genius and irresistible emotional venting will leave you breathless and in a frozen state of awe.