I may not have the point at all, but I think anything sung by James Grundler (what a funny last name!) may be right up your alley. He's been in three bands, The Din Pedals, Paloalto, and currently Golden State. You can download 4 of Golden State's songs at their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/goldenstatetheband
I like some of those, but I consider most of his best to be on previous albums. So if you like them, or if you want to hear some of his others anyway, PM me your email and I'll send you a couple.
I encourage you to give him a chance, his voice really really grows on you and some of his other songs are now some of my favorite.
A fun factoid: you will probably find one of paloalto's songs on Ares or whatever file sharer you use if you search for "Innocent Civilian" by radiohead. It's actually a song called "Some things must go this way" by Paloalto, and I really like it. It got confused for Radiohead somewhere along the way (kinda sounds like them) and was mislabeled, and became popular on the P2P's. That's how I initially found out who they were, because was trying to find out what Radiohead album the song was on, and had to do some intense research to find this out. That's also what gave me the idea to suggest them to you, since you mentioned Radiohead. It's a shame that quite a few people listened to them, but they never got any money for it, nor even the name recognition.
It's one of my favorite songs of his, and if you like radiohead you'd probably like it