2000 Great Songs #1318: Sunfair
I really loved 90s Bay Area indie band Creeper Lagoon and their 1998 LP I Become Small And Go --we've already visited a couple of its tracks here)--and had hoped their 2001 major label debut, Take Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday , would give some local favorites a commercial boost. Alas, while the album was pretty solid, the added bucks giving the songs a bit more of a radio-friendly sheen, it never quite happened for the band. While it's not a mainstay of my playlists these days, I particularly liked "Sunfair"; it was a bit of a throwback to the prior album, re-using the blend of electronic beats and raw post-Pavement guitar rock and quiet-loud-quiet dynamics, but with a bit more sonic muscle this time around. Reunion show, 2017: See the entire Top 2000 to date in a sortable database !
