Claude says:Friction Baby landed in '96 right when Better Than Ezra's jangle-pop sweetness could've felt dated, but instead they leaned into something grittier and more electronic—a record that sounds caught between eras in the best way. You keep coming back to "Desperately Wanting," which carries that wistful mid-90s ache they do so well, even if the whole thing only gets a handful of spins from you every few years.