Tape Hiss Still Makes Me Happy

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Stars of the Lid's classic debut album

Stars of the Lid, the duo of Adam Wiltzie and the late Brian McBride, are ambient music royalty.

Any serious list of the genre’s landmark albums will have to include either The Tired Sounds of… (2001), or And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007), if not both.

On Christmas Day of 1992, when the band was first formed, Brian and Adam were two broke stoners…