With twenty-five years under his belt, it’s due time someone took a closer look at Jason Martin’s wide discography.

From the complete lack of any sort of impact left by his music within the culture of 90’s shoegaze and 00’s indie rock to his (at best) sporadic web presence, it would almost appear as if Jason Martin’s entire career in music has been an exercise in flying under the radar. Perhaps it’s because his brand of shoegaze was too different from the one of his contemporaries, preferring to remain rooted in blues riffs rather than to experiment or embrace the emerging alternative rock sound of the time. Or maybe his indie rock was a bit too plain in an era where quirkiness was sought after. This is rendered even more peculiar by his band Starflyer 59’s 1995 album Gold landing the 41st spot on Pitchfork’s The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time list, as well as being 25th in the same category on the music rating database RateYourMusic.

Starflyer 59’s music is paradoxically both lauded and snubbed.

With a career spanning twenty-five years, and his fifteenth album Young In My Head releasing this April, it’s due time someone took a closer look at Jason Martin’s and his band Starflyer 59’s wide discography. But while it can be quite daunting to sift through such a large output, Mr. Martin makes the task rather simple, as Starflyer 59’s body of work can be easily categorized into eras.