Beulah: When Your Heartstrings Break (1999)

A little surprised to realize I had yet to include Beulah in these pages; time to correct that oversight!

The San Francisco band were part of the 90s Elephant 6 collective, like-minded indie pop bands with a similar penchant for reinterpreting 60s pop and psychedelia (Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider produced some of their earlier work). This, their second LP, moves beyond the lo-fi, crunchy noise-pop of their debut and takes on a much more baroque, orchestrated sound, incorporating key...