KC Accidental - Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub (1998)

The first KC Accidental album. This is a jazzier affair. Personally, I prefer the second one, but whatever. It's still good. Enjoy.

KC Accidental - Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub (1998)

Panda Bear – Panda Bear (1998)

Noah Lennox, AKA Panda Bear, is the lead singer of everyone's favourite psych-weirdos Animal Collective. This record, his debut album as a solo artist, was written and recorded when he was just twenty, and taking that into consideration, it just makes it seem all the greater. I much prefer this album over 2004's Young Prayer, which is a rather lo-fi affair written following the death of his father, and 2007's Person Pitch, which, despite the fact that music journalists the world over seem to be crawling over one another to lavish it with superlatives in a big circle jerk, it just sounds like everything else Animal Collective have produced; this self-titled album is definitely a solo affair, and is all the better for it. Enjoy.

Panda Bear – Panda Bear (1998)

Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)

Argh, I'd love to spend hours writing aabout how good this album is, and how it's one of my all-time favourites, but I've got a train to catch. So what I will say is that this album is one of the greatest of all time, perfect in every sense. It sounds utterly whole and complete, and yet the tracks are still songs as opposed to movements in the greater symphony. Can Jeff Magnum sing? Can he bollocks; but that only adds to the album. He sings his little heart out, and emotion is greater than any formal training for ability. Case in point - 'Oh Comely', an eight minute track that was recorded on the first take. You can even heat the sound engineer say 'Oh shit!' at the end of the song - that's how damn good this album is! Enjoy.

Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)