Joe Madden
Really good straight-ahead, heavy shoegaze: guitars aggressive yet reverbed and tremolo-ed into oblivion, expressive vocals, lots of dreamy textures, pounding drums (it's really worth pointing out how good the drums sound on this album; check out See It Now, for example), and well-structured songs. Hard to choose a fave track because it's remarkably solid start to finish, but I'll go with --
Favorite track: Always.