Turns out that Julee Cruise, the woman on whose album the Twin Peaks theme appears, has other albums. They're massively overlooked, if not exactly instant classics. This one, released in 2002, is a compelling document of a particularly odd time, infusing that same dreamy vocal sensibility with the good-not-great jazzy drum and synth work of the electronic lounge music era. Relatively few songs hit more than any others, and a couple (namely Cha Cha in the Dark) are massive misses. Nevertheless, the whole thing's worth a listen; trip-hop is a funny sound to revisit because it was so big so briefly, and so this album will never not suggest what, in the late '90s, I understood to be the sound of adulthood.

Highlights: The Orbiting Beatnik, Everybody Knows, Shine