Personnel: Pinback (recorder); Rob Crow (vocals, guitar, cello, keyboards, percussion, drum programming, scratches); Armistead Burwell Smith IV (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drum programming); Tom Zinser (drums).

Audio Mixer: Pinback.

San Diego's Pinback is an unassuming trio that creeps up on you in powerful ways. Like a scent that has the power to transport one to another time and place, Pinback's music is rich in powerful and transcendent glimpsed memories. The images on the cover and inside of the CD booklet are a series of vacation snap shots. These images of distant trips that somebody else took capture the nostalgia that comes from thinking about the rapid passage of time. Pinback was formed by songwriters Rob Crow and Armistead B. Smith IV, who write songs that comfort through an ethereal richness. Simple melodic figures repeat and become layered, leading a listener along pathways strewn with the melancholy of lost love and fragmented dreams. Lush vocals drift in and out of the instrumental backing like fish through an underwater garden.