The Boo Radleys

The Boo Radleys walk a crooked line between overdriven shoegaze and breezy dream pop; they are just as likely to record dubby, noise-damaged epics as they are to explode out of radio speakers, a chief example being 1995's hit single "Wake Up Boo!" made by the first incarnation of the band. Combining Martin Carr's off-the-beam songwriting and Sice's choirboy-pure vocals, the band started making blown-out noise rock on 1990's grungily lo-fi Ichabod and I, and gradually dialed back the noise and folded in influences as wide-ranging as hip-hop, dub, Love, orchestral pop, psychedel...