Spilt Milk by Jellyfish

Spilt Milk, the second and last Jellyfish album, came out on Charisma on February 9, 1993, and it's power pop blown up to cathedral size. Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning wrote it and co-produced it with Albhy Galuten and Jack Joseph Puig, and they held nothing back: stacked vocal harmonies, orchestral flourishes, studio trickery piled to the ceiling, all harsher and more ornate than Bellybutton. The pop of the 1960s they loved is everywhere in the grooves, bent through a funhouse mirror.

The title is a sly nod to the grind of making it. Bassist Chris Manning and guitarist Jason Falkner were gone, Tim Smith took over bass, and session hands Jon Brion and Lyle Workman covered guitar while the fussy arrangements dragged the work on for months and over budget. "The Ghost at Number One" and "New Mistake" were the singles, but the record sold below hopes, and the band split the next year.

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