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An black-and-white pencil artist named Cynthia Lund Torroll took some of her work, set it to one of my absolute favorite pieces of music of the last several years and posted it on YouTube -- and that's why I'm now posting it here.

I really can't express enough how much I love this song.

From David Poe and Duncan Sheik -- here's Loves a Sinner. The song fades out a little early -- but it's still worth putting up.

Listening Post: Nostalgia Edition

Sorry, folks, but this one can't wait. I had no idea Duncan Sheik recorded and just released an entire album of 80s covers and for that I'm kicking myself. But then again maybe it's better I didn't know because my reaction when I came across those 12 songs was nothing short of overwhelming. I love Sheik anyway and have since the start of his career, and his choice and performance of covers is pretty much legendary at this point, but this -- this just blows me away.

Here now, just a few tracks from the album.

Talk Talk's Life's What You Make It:



Howard Jones's What Is Love?:



The Psychedelic Furs' The Ghost in You:



Also on the album, Shout, Stripped, Love Vigilantes, Kyoto Song and a whole lot more.

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It's always a good day for some Duncan Sheik.

Here's Earthbound Starlight.

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Perfect for a Sunday morning -- three acoustic songs from Duncan Sheik: For You, Genius and Good Morning.

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One of my favorite things about Duncan Sheik -- in addition to the way I felt the first time I heard his debut album back in the mid-90s -- is that his taste in music happens to match my own in many ways.

Case in point: When he did this cover at the House of Blues in Los Angeles years ago, my jaw just about dropped -- because I love this song so, so much.

Here's Duncan Sheik doing Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees.

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This still stands as one of my favorite debut albums from a singer-songwriter.

Here's Duncan Sheik, doing She Runs Away.