The Miller Stain Limit – Radiate (1998)

The Miller Stain Limit is formed of two modest musicians from Toronto, J. Miller and Terry Sawchuck, music engineer, producer for Alanis, etc. WHat they managed to put together here is a great collection of songs that allow the listener to hear the album as a whole and not as individual tracks. What appealed to me initially was the use of new instruments on their album Radiate, instruments we've never heard of actually like the chest percussion and using unusual pop/rock instruments like a dobro and a guitorgan (sounds like an organ as well as a guitar). This shows how much risks they've taken with this album, esp. being dropped from A&M Records after copyright disputes, but they've bounced back by releasing all the tracks from Radiate. Radiate is truly an album to listen to in one setting, either you're trying to get to sleep or want to travel without even leaving your comfy apartment.~ By Philippe Lebrun