Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
Once upon a time The Boo Radleys were just another noisy indie band that I put in the "not bad" category. Then in 1993 they sprung this sprawling masterpiece of a double album on the world.
It's the album that is influenced by everything, but sounds like nothing else. It made total sense even though it shouldn't have. I love it all and twenty seven years on, the moment where, just as you think the album might be winding down, THAT brass riff kicks in at the start of Lazarus still stops me in my tracks.
It should have been massive, but it didn't sell so Martin Carr allegedly wrote Wake Up Boo to make a point that the band COULD have a hit single if they tried. They did and it resulted in a lot of people knowing and hating them for that one song. The irony is that the feelgood hit of the summer was under the surface an incredibly melancholy one.
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