Mojave 3: Puzzles Like You (2006)

London's Mojave 3 released five albums of mellow, dreamy, Southern California-drenched light pop in the '90s and '00s. Incongruously enough, the founding trio were all former members of Slowdive, purveyors of gauzy shoegaze (albeit on the more dream-pop side of the noise spectrum). But for their new band, they stripped away the heavy atmospheric ambience and replaced it with some gentle Americana guitar jangle. Puzzles Like You, the band's final release, upped the pop quotient a bit, augmenting ...