Lungfish – Rainbows From Atoms LP

Lungfish – Rainbows From Atoms LP "While it can’t be regarded as the finest album in their extensive catalogue – that honour may, in hindsight, go to 1999’s ferocious The Unanimous Hour – second LP Rainbows From Atoms nevertheless marked the moment when Baltimore’s Lungfish reached out and touched a good many more hearts and minds. The year of its original release – 1993 – tied in perfectly with the boom enjoyed by American punk and grunge; British ears were desperate for new sounds, and although they’d been an operational unit since 1988, the Daniel Higgs-fronted four-piece would only now enjoy the attentions of individuals well beyond their peer and scene groups. Being signed to Dischord didn’t harm the band’s relative fortunes any. Outsiders on a DC-dominated label, they were marked out as exceptions to a rule never truly enforced, but the stuff of myth nonetheless; thus, a certain mystique hung over them, and this indefinable aurora of uniqueness was bolstered by Higgs finding his