Alejandro Escovedo's latest album Real Animal earned three and a half stars in our latest issue (out tomorrow!), and critic Will Hermes writes, "as a solo artist, [Escovedo]'s transcended labels, and his latest is a chrome-bright autobiographical song cycle with flashbacks that roar into the present." Sample the goodness for yourself: here's "Real as an Animal - Live From Sirius Satellite Radio":