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Photo by Sadie Martin For more than three decades, Starflyer 59 has built one of the most enduring catalogues in American alternative music. Founded in Riverside, California by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jason Martin, the project began in the early 1990s as a hazy outgrowth of the shoegaze movement before gradually transforming into something far broader and harder to categorise. The band’s beginnings came almost by chance. In 1993, Martin handed a demo to