I'll start with Shack's Waterpistol. Shack is a band from Liverpool with virtually no profile here in the States. They're better known in the UK, but not by much. This album should have been their breakthrough in 1991, but due to a studio fire the tapes were thought lost. A copy was eventually located, but the album wasn't released until 1995 on the fairly obscure German label, Marina.
It's bursting with great tunes with a bit of a psychedelic edge and lyrics that are sometimes heartbreaking in their honesty (especially "Neighbours," about parents - arguably willingly - turning a blind eye blind to their son's drug addiction).
Love this disc. Their recent album, ...The Corner of Miles and Gil, is excellent too, but Waterpistol has that extra spark.
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