Should - Feed Like Fishes (Reissue 2026) (1998)

Review by Jack Rabid:
The folks in Phoenix's Half String talked up this trio when they were Austin, TX's shiFt (before they moved north to various universities and gave up their name because of another band called Shift). And it's easy to see why: Should would have fit perfectly into Arizona's former "beautiful noise," post-dream pop scene. Even without the interestingly sedate but grasping cover of the Wedding Present's "Spangle" (and, on another record, 18th Dye's "Merger"), their sound makes it apparent that they can match the English in pairing inventive, modern guitars to lulling tunes for nighttime singing. You could see "Sarah Missing" appearing on a Slowdive or Mojave 3 record, what with the beautiful male/female cooing (from the Ostermeier brothers, Marc and Eric, and Tanya Maus), the far away, knelling guitars, and the enveloping production. But this is no recent nostalgia, or even British-wannabe sound. Stick these folks on a bill with Wheat, Acetone, Idaho, Red House Painters, and Low and they would easily hold their own, and prove once again that slower (not slow) tempos don't make for boring music in the right hands. This is so pretty is almost hurts. — AMG

Track List:
01-Fish Fourteen
02-Sarah Missing
03-Aside
04-Spangle
05-It Still Would
06-Lullen
07-Memdrive
08-Its Pull Is Slight
09-Inst2
10-In Nine
11-Both Eyes Open
12-Things Are the Same (In Nine)
13-Faded
14-This House I'm Living In
15-Myself
16-Singe
17-Feed Like Fishes
18-Ocean Warm
19-Soothed (Rerecorded)
20-Merger
21-These Days


Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, shoegaze
Origin: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)


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