We Blame Chicago 5xLP boxset out now. Formed in the summer of 1995 in St. Louis, Missouri, 90 Day Men started as an exercise to write six songs in twelve days. Taking a page from Samuel Yochelson’s book, The Criminal Personality, the band’s name is a reference to cop slang for patients awaiting psychiatric evaluation. The initial trio of Cayce Key (drums), Chandler McWilliams (bass/vocals), and Brian Case (guitar/vocals) was joined by multi-instrumentalist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe at the end of 1996, who contributed coronet and keyboards, before taking over bass duties after McWilliams’ amicable departure at the end of the year. 90 Day Men picked up keyboardist Andrew Lansangan, a childhood friend of Key and Case, who debuted on the band’s debut album, 2000’s (It (Is) It) Critical Band. The band followed up their debut in 2002 with their breakthrough album To Everybody. Conceived and committed to tape in the weeks surrounding 9/11, To Everybody is 90 Day Men’s stream-of-consciousness answer to who they had become, and how they would navigate the new millennium. 2004 would see the group’s third and final album, Panda Park. The culmination of a decade’s worth of uncompromising vision, 90 Day Men created a future landscape so realized even they couldn’t survive its environs. Not even six months after its release, the band would disintegrate, almost exactly 10 years to the day of their inception.