What began casually enough as a way to keep the hands from going idle between Three Mile Pilot and Thingy albums has grown to become one of the most popular and well-respected underground pop bands of the last decade. Over the course of four albums in a dozen years, Pinback has mined, perfected, done and undone more brilliant melodies in any one album than most bands can conjure in their entire careers. Their hybrid of pop, folk, rock, reggae and subdued funk is genuinely like nothing else outthere. Perhaps even more unique: not an ounce of contrivance in sight.