For Anglo-Irish avant-pop group The High Llamas' 1992 debut album, Sean O’Hagan, who used the sextant to navigate the post-Microdisney music world, presented them as a guitar pop outfit (for fans of: NRBQ, Big Star, Steely Dan), with nine exquisite examples of their often out-of-phase sound. If there had been no others afterward, Santa Barbara would still be a buried treasure sought out by the incessant waves of travelers seeking those sweet jangly spices.