Lilys: Better Can't Make Your Life Better (1996)

Washington, DC-based Lilys have been kicking around on-and-off since the early 90s, trying out a few genres along the way. Their earliest work was pure shoegaze, 1992 debut In The Presence of Nothing sounding like a My Bloody Valentine cover band (albeit a really great one). But by 1996's Better Can't Make Your Life Better, they'd made a dramatic switch, with an album full of light, whimsical, retro-60s pop-psyche, a kindred soul of Elephant 6 mainstays like Olivia Tremor Control and Apples in S...