On Powder Burns, the follow-up to the Twilights' 2004 covers album, She Loves You, there's something even darker than usual tugging at the music, but for once it's not of Dulli's making: The front man recorded the album at producer Mike Napolitano's studio in New Orleans, half before Hurricane Katrina hit, the other half after. The result is the rawest Singers album yet, with electronic beats grinding beneath trebly guitar fuzz, and woozy keyboards doing their best to absorb Dulli's gloom in cuts like "Underneath the Waves," where the singer longs for "a place high above the tide." This album digs too deep to be that place, and that's its virtue.