Bakesale by Sebadoh

Bakesale, Sebadoh's fifth album, came out on Sub Pop on August 23, 1994, and it's the first without co-founder Eric Gaffney, though he still turns up drumming on four tracks from a session Bob Weston engineered. Bob Fay, who had been filling in, joined for real, and Tara Jane O'Neil sat in on drums for three more. That leaves Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein trading lead vocals, and the Northampton band that helped pioneer four-track lo-fi sounds cleaner, tighter and more tuneful than ever, without losing the frayed edges.

"Skull" is the sweet, aching standout. The cover is a snapshot of Barlow at one year old, taken by his mother, with young Fay and his two brothers on the back; a can of Comet on the toilet tank got airbrushed out for the reissue. Harmacy came next.

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