I Become Small and Go by Creeper Lagoon

I Become Small and Go, Creeper Lagoon's 1998 debut album, is San Francisco indie rock with a tinkerer's streak. Sharky Laguana and Ian Sefchick had first played together as teenagers in an Ohio punk band, and before the sessions they found a bassist and a drummer by placing a want ad. What they made sounds like a bedroom project let loose in a toy shop: samples, a heap of toy and found instruments, and guitars and keyboards wrapped around mopey, lovely tunes. John King of the Dust Brothers, whose NickelBag label put the band out, remixed "Wonderful Love", "Dear Deadly" and "Empty Ships".

"Wonderful Love" was the first single, and the Washington Post heard Mark Eitzel's downbeat grace in it, and John Cale in "Second Chance". Trouser Press wasn't buying, writing it off as generic alterna-pop. "Empty Ships" wound up on the Dead Man on Campus soundtrack, and the band took the album on the road with Versus and Rocket from the Crypt.

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