Tim Best is a sporadically active singer/guitarist from Melbourne, Australia. I don't know what his connection to Parasol Records is, but he's had a home there since the early '90s, when he led the shimmering indie-jangle trio Girl of the World. (Incestuous trivia: another third of Girl of the World, guitarist Bart Cummings, later co-led the Shapiros, whose "Gone By Fall" was Little Hits' Song of the Day on November 29, 2005.) "Travel" was the title track of Girl of the World's four-track debut, which was one of Parasol's earliest releases, and it's a textbook example of a certain kind of shambolic, winsome indie pop that was seemingly everywhere in the first half of the '90s. Best's later records as Hispana Tim and finally under his own name have been less interesting, but I strongly recommend Parasol's Girl of the World compilation, titled Wonderboy and containing just about everything the group recorded.

-Stewart Mason