Bizarre

Limiting or misplaced as a term it might have been, but shoegazing did describe a certain combination of digital-delay pedal overload and often sweetly drowsy, melancholic songs readily enough -- and not just in the genre's supposed home base of the U.K. Like their Eastern European counterparts from Czechoslovakia, the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, Bizarre appeared in a country recently relieved of membership in the Warsaw Pact, Estonia. Eventually settling on a five-piece lineup like obvious partial inspirations Slowdive and consisting of Inga Jagomäe (vocals), Mart Eller (vocals...