one of those formative "fundamentally changed the way i see music" albums for me.
i have an older brother who suddenly became a very active, enterprising music listener around when he got his first job as a teen. we lived in a small, rural college town so he would listen to the local college radio station a lot and then go into the nearest big record store in the city with his bandmates to buy the records he could pick out. indie music was coming into its own around this time, tho Neutral Milk Hotel and its ilk hadn't really blown up online yet.
i was younger - around age 12 - and when he brought this album home i… More