Case in point.Broken Bells.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124693836

Talks it up pretty good.

While writing "Sailing to Nowhere," Mercer says the image in his mind was the docking of a ship returning from a disastrous journey in the 1340s. It's brought back the plague to Europe and, as Mercer puts it, "apple-sized goiters on their body. It was the beginning of — I guess — half of the population of Europe."

Sounds nifty I'll have to check that out.
So I did.I tried really really hard but still and at the end I thought this is just dross.Where's the narrative to this? where's the tunes? Where is the innovation?