This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Along with fellow short-lived indie-rock forerunners Slint, Louisville, Ky.’s Rodan helped pioneer and perfect the melancholy minimalism of the slo-core sound — dreamy guitars, leisurely tempi, intimate vocals — that’s been dominating the college charts of late.
On her solo bedroom-fi debut Peregrine, former Rodan multi-instrumentalist Tara Jane O’Neil continues to illustrate how less can be more — and considerably more beautiful. Coaxing gentle, flowing melodies from her guitar and piano (she played nearly all the instruments here, including banjo and balalaika), O’Neil unburdens herself with affectless vocals, spinning ethereal odes that fall somewhere between downbeat Breeders, Julie Doiron and The Carpenters‘ Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft. Quite extraordinary.