Afterwards, the band began to tour for the first time, and then in 1998 released "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" on Merge, an album which has since become one of the most popular and acclaimed indie rock albums of the 1990s.
Afterwards, the band began to tour for the first time, and grew to include horns player Scott Spillane, multi-instrumentalist Julian Koster, and drummer Jeremy Barnes. In 1998 the band released "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" on Merge, an album which has since become one of the most popular and acclaimed indie rock albums of the 1990s.