Formed in Austin, Texas during the early 1990s, the shoegaze and dream pop outfit Should began as a trio consisting of brothers Marc and Eric Ostermeier along with Tanya Maus. They initially performed under the name shiFT but changed it after discovering another group already using that title. The three musicians crafted their hazy, dreamy pop through an unusual process that relied on guitar loops, samplers, and distortion produced by pushing an old four-track mixer into overload. Their debut EP, the six-track A Folding Sieve, appeared in 1995 on the ND label while the band still recorded as shiFT. Two years later ND issued the “Own Two Feet” 7”. In 1998 the Minneapolis-based imprint Words on Music put out the group’s second full-length, Feed Like Fishes. After that release the band stopped making new material, yet Words on Music later issued an expanded edition of A Folding Sieve that incorporated previously unheard songs plus covers of material by 18th Dye and the Jean Paul Sartre Experience. The project returned in 2010 as a duo without Eric Ostermeier and delivered the album Like a Fire Without Sound on Words on Music. Shortly afterward Captured Tracks selected A Folding Sieve for its Shoegaze Archives series, resulting in a 2011 reissue that added two further bonus tracks. The same label also brought out the cassette Resonate, which reissued a 1993 Whirlingpool Records tape originally recorded by shiFT.
