Growing up in Seattle, as a young musician I remember my friend playing me a snippet of a song over the phone attached to the wall. “The world is a vampire “. I had to hear more. Offering something, deeper & more musically sophisticated than the grunge I couldn’t escape this album changed my life. I remember the smell of the booklet. The way that record made me feel; understood- somehow not alone.  To this day that is my “stranded on an island” record. My greatest inspiration and an absolute masterpiece. The lyrical turn for something a bit more obvious cut through the noise, giving me an internal outlet for the heartbreak, the rejection, isolation, and angst I experienced. MCIS is hands down one of the most important records of all time, and it wouldn’t be SP if it wasn’t forever under-appreciated.  There is not enough space here for me to be able to fully describe how this album was MY LIFE for so many years, and still sees no equal in my eyes as far as the songs on it, and the variety , that paved the way for “alternative music” by definition.