Artist The Felix Culpa

The Felix Culpa isn’t a deep and brooding band, but if there were ever Learning Annex courses on such a thing, the jangly rock band would be the first to pre-register. The quartet “from the Illinois/Wisconsin border” tries valiantly, though, from a name (a religious term referring to Adam and Eve’s loss of the Garden of Eden) and song titles clipped from a high-schooler’s poetry journal (“Good Business Moves” and “The End Of Inspiration,” for instance) to the band’s rule that every song must build to a bombastic climax, even if it’s unearned and feels hollow. Maybe all that hype finally got to the band, who announced its break-up late this summer. 

Updated 11/30/2011