Vitreous Humor:
Posthumous(Crank Records, 1998)
http://www.mediafire.com/?kvzzjamrtom
Why this album, a collection of odds-and-sods from a little-known Kansas indie rock band isn't seen as one of the crowning achievements of that whole mid-90s Mid-West emo scene is beyond me. Yeah, bands like Christie Front Drive and Boys Life, while being pretty good, still had more prestige that these dudes. The only time I've seen them in a magazine was in an off-hand reference to them in the opening paragraph of an article about Jimmy Eat World, back when they were a credible part of that scene.
Well, off-hand reference nothing. Because these guys were great. While this album is in essence of a compilation, the songs here are remarkably cohesive and flow together well, with a sound combining "angular", once-clean twice-noisy guitars and lead-singer Danny Pound's yarbling, non-sequitur lyrics. Recommended for fans of the above bands as well as anyone even remotely interested in the mid-90s Midwest emo scene.
Caveat Downlodeur: The songs are in .WMA, but I can try to find a higher-quality rip of the album.