Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience | 90s Album Review

Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience | 90s Album Review

Author: Dig Me Out August 19, 2025 Duration: 56:34
Sky Cries Mary’s 1993 album A Return to the Inner Experience is a sprawling, psychedelic journey unlike almost anything else out of Seattle in the 90s. Formed in the late 1980s, Sky Cries Mary blends elements of trance, space rock, ambient textures, and spoken word, and this album marked their first major label release, giving them wider exposure. Across 17 tracks, the record flows like a hallucinatory dream, shifting between hypnotic rhythms, swirling guitar effects, and ethereal male-female vocal interplay from Roderick Wolgamott and Anisa Romero.  At once atmospheric and tribal, the record reflects the early ’90s fascination with both electronic textures and post-psychedelic exploration, balancing cosmic ambition and underground sensibility.   Songs In This Episode Intro - Lay Down Your Head 17:53 - 2000 Light Years From Home 22:03 - Gone 25:39 - Walla Walla 34:17 - Broken Down Outro - Moving Like Water   Support the podcast, join the DMO UNION at Patreon. Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.

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Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:51
While not as well know as other goth heavyweights like Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, the third album by Fields of the Nephilim, 1990s Elizium, deserves recognition on par with the classics of t…
Cut City - Exit Decades | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:14
This week we revisit the 2007 debut album Exit Decades by Cut City. If you are a fan of 70s post-punk (The Sound, Joy Division) or the 2000s revival (Interpol, Bloc Party), you will definitely want to tune in and check o…
Blues Traveler - Travelers and Thieves | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:27
Known for the hits “Run Around,” “Hook,” and “Mountains Win Again,” we take a listen to their 1991 sophomore album Travelers and Thieves. Songs In This Episode Intro - Ivory Tusk 15:16 - Onslaught 10:36 - What’s For Brea…
Love Outside Andromeda - Love Outside Andromeda | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:47
Clean acoustic guitars and strings one moment, fuzzy riffs and f-bombs the next - we check out the self-titled 2004 debut by Love Outside Andromeda. Songs In This Episode Intro - Tongue Like a Tether 11:45 - Improper Met…
Replicants - Replicants | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:17
Take members of Tool and Failure, give them classic rock artists and new wave bands to cover, and you get the oddball 1996 self-titled by Replicants. Songs In This Episode Intro - Just What I Needed (The Cars) 13:03 - Di…
The Argument - Recess Serenade | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:42
Power pop might be one of the most misunderstood and under-appreciated genres under rock, and the 2004 album Recess Serenade by The Argument is a perfect example. Harmonies and hooks with loud guitars, what more could yo…
Space - Spiders | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:22
The 1996 debut album Spiders by Liverpool’s Space is an eclectic mix of trip-hop, Madchester, Britpop, and more, including the 60s lounge of single “Female of the Species.” But eclecticism can slip into inconsistency, an…
Kashmir - No Balance Palace | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:09
It's been many years and many albums since our introduction to Denmark's Kashmir, and while the line-up stayed the same, the sound has evolved. This time we check out the 2005 album No Balance Palace, with a studio legen…
Purusam – Daybreak Chronicle | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:10
Refused famously titled their landmark 1998 post-hardcore album The Shape of Punk to Come, a nod to the trailblazing Ornette Coleman avant garde/free jazz album The Shape of Jazz to Come released in 1959. The short-lived…
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:34
Good Health, the 2002 debut album by Pretty Girls Make Graves, packs punches in all the right places and in under thirty minutes. Angular guitars bounce off of a confident, inventive rhythm section in service of indie ro…