The Sugargliders - We're All Trying To Get There (1994)

Sugargliders made delightfully light and airy indie pop that seemed to blush as you put it on repeat. Compiling six singles and six of their B-sides, We're All Trying to Get There navigated through difficult-to-find Sarah Records releases with a wonderful evenness in quality. Voiced like a picnicking Rialto or the Ocean Blue, but not as flamboyant or domestic, the scrumpy trip-hop of "Letter From a Lifeboat" and the leaning playfulness of "90 Days of Moths and Rust" are feathered pop successes, making do with sparse, unrefracted, all-acoustic guitars; country & western harmonicas; and a penchant for paused rhythms that escorted the music away from an otherwise underwhelming mildness. Small, but clever.