On 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement refined their lo-fi sound to write one of the defining albums of 1990s indie rock

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Creeper Lagoon's 1998 debut I Become Small and Go finds the right balance between Dust Brothers production and lo-fi

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Eels sophomore release Electro-Shock Blues is an emotionally devastating record that manages to grow more poignant as its audience matures

On their 1999 album The Ideal Crash, dEUS explore the studio and expand their sound to unique but mixed results

On his second album as Sparklehorse, Mark Linkous expertly combined painful intimacy and pop exuberance on Good Morning Spider

Age can make the adventurous seem tame, does Mercury Rev's 1998 album Deserter’s Songs stand the test of time?

Tripping Daisy even managed to score their own version of an oddball hit single a la "She Don't Use Jelly" with the tune "I Got A Girl,"