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The album was recorded in LA by The Robb Brothers and features numerous crowd favorites, in particular: \"Sodajerk\", “I’m Allowed”, “Treehouse” and “Late At Night.” The band was brought to new levels of fame when “Late At Night” was heavily featured in a pivotal scene of the short-lived mid-90s cult TV show \"My So Called Life” which starred Claire Danes and Jared Leto. 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Inside that abstruse cover are undeniably magnificent tunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Staples” is emblematic of a band in flux with a grungy lyrical conceit rendered with hi-fi guitar squalls. It’s the first single “Taillights Fade,” however, where the band appears to find a new comfort zone, at an unhurried speed where Janovitz’s storytelling and car crash metaphors stand the best chance of making an impression. It plays with quiet-to-loud dynamics, and as for emotional expression, it swings for the bleachers--and a place on alternative rock radio. “Mineral” jangles in a similar vein and makes grand gestures. “Darl” and “Larry” (referencing the brothers from the Newhart show I always thought?) are solid but disparate cuts. 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