the spinanes

originally, the spinanes was the duo of rebecca gates and scott plouf. after their much-lauded debut, manos, critics mostly forgot them. drummer plouf left after their second record, strand, to play with built to spill. arches and aisles came next and it had some good songs. the sea and cake's john mcentire and sam prekop appear on the record. you can really hear mcentire's sound on "kid in candy". sometimes gates gets a bit too precious and sultry for my taste, but other times she really nails it. 1998. sub pop records.