Apollo 18 LP (Picture Disc)

The first album created with John F. and John L. at the production helm, it is not surprising that this album is both sonically adventurous and musically surprising. Along side the tight pop songwriting that is the bands trademark (Narrow Your Eyes, I Palindrome I) the texture of impossibly dense, sample-based concoctions enter the picture (Spider, The Guitar, Hall of Heads). The album reaches a crescendo with the unknowable genre-shifting montage of “Fingertips,” a series of twenty-one short songs, most under thirty seconds long.