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VA – The Sound of Leamington Spa Volume 1-5
24/07/10
The three record companies involved in these releases – Clarendon Records, Firestation Records and Bilberry Records – all had the same idea for the compilation series independently. As they started talking to each other they realised that if the individuals from these companies wanted to see these recordings made available once more, it made sense that there was a large listening public of like minds. Some of the groups are obscure, others are better known, but it was deliberate policy not to release the more familiar artists of the time. After all, even though these are old recordings, it was still felt important to be offering something new, something that would give the listener that thrill of hearing something unexpected and delicious for the first time. Even the most knowledgeable and devoted 80s indie-pop fan will make new discoveries in uncharted territories here.
The Sound of Leamington Spa is a series of CDs and LPs that give people the chance to get re-acquainted with, or discover anew, a back catalogue of British pop gems that had been banished to an airwave graveyard. Like the legendary Pebbles albums that showcased the hidden wonders of 1960s garage so eloquently, the Leamington Spa series provides a valuable public service to the hungry independent pop music explorer, who wanders through the past as well as the present in search of unmapped landmarks. ~ TWEE.NET
VA – The Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 1 (2000) | DOWNLOAD
The Pooh Sticks – Indiepop Ain’t Noise Pollution
Episode Four – Strike Up Matches
Big Red Bus – Cathedral walls
The Man From Delmonte – Drive Drive Drive
Hey Paulette – I Really Do Love Penelope
Where Gardens Fall – Search
The Anyways – Silver
Metro Trinity – Spend My Whole Life Loving You
The Hepburns – Andy & Valerie
Asia Fields – Dazzed
The Siddeleys – Sunshine Thuggery
Hot Rain – Time Is On Our Side
The Desert Wolves – Mexico
The Clamheads – Summer’s Coming Down
Sister Rain – Burt Reynolds
The Cherry Orchard – So blind
North Of Cornwallis – Billy Liar
The Windmills – The Day Dawned On Me
Last Party – Barbecued
The Wishing Stones – Beat Girl
The Aurbisons – Holy Cow
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Friends – You’ll Never See That Summertime Again
Bob Hope – I Don’t Know
Newsflash – An Englishman
The Sandalwoods – The Day Is Mine
Said Liquidator – Third Man
Reserve – Butcher’s Daughter
Benny Profane – Tear The Web
Dubious Brothers – Yes Man
Phil Wilson – Better Days
The Groove Farm – Just A Silly Phase I’m Going Through
Splendid Fellows – Fields of Corn
The Big Gun – Heard About Love
Harbour Bar – The Boy I Was
The Honest Johns – Judas In Me Singing
Fat and Frantic – I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye
Fallover 24 – Cloth Stained Blue
The Passmore Sisters – Difficult
Love Parade – Under The Weather
Ambitious Beggars – Pockets and Minds
VA – The Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 3 (2003) | DOWNLOAD
The Candidates – Sound Of Summer
Pure – Aspidistra
Accrington Stanley – The New Me
The Morrisons – Listen To Your Heart
1000 Violins – Start Digging My Grave Sugar
The Bloody Marys – Stain
Me And Dean Martin – Me And My Paisley Shirt
Bounce The Mouse – Will You Ever Say
Exit 13 – Perfect Dream
Waving At Trains – Sylvie
Thin Gypsy Thieves – Perfection
The Passengers – Sometimes
Snowbirds – Motorcycle Baby
The Deddingtons – The Last Day
C-Saim – Give And Take
Onionhead – It Comes Around
Honeytrap – Peace In A Picture
The Chairs – Brave Little Soldier
The Irregulars – Against The Grain Of My Life
The Chalk Giants – Pushing Gary Down
VA – The Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 4 (2004) | DOWNLOAD
The Clouds – Get Out My Dream
The Submarines – I Saw The Children
Decoy Avenue – Gone Native
Candy Darlings – That’s Where Caroline Lives
35 Summers – Really Down
The Nivens – Yesterday
The Minnows – Time Flies
The Marteens – First Kiss
Hellfire Sermons – The Best Laugh I Ever Had
The Bridge – Shame Is A Girl
The Apple Moths – Everything
The Williams – I Know I’m Nothing Special To You
Johnny Says Yeah! – Waiting Here For Me
Dislocation Dance – He’s The Man
The Church Grims – Plaster Saint
Beethoven’s Kiss – The Wonder Of You
Nautical William – Love House
Explained Emma – When My Heart Rings
The Days – Audrey’s Curtains
Wake Up Afrika – Walking Blind
VA – The Sound of Leamington Spa Vol. 5 (2005) | DOWNLOAD
Nine Steps To Ugly – Eddie Lopez Lives In Slough
Perfect – Desire
A Strange Desire – Promise To Lie
On The Waterfront – Mrs Harrington
The Shrew Kings – Losing My Cool
The Incredible Blondes – Forever (Swansong)
No Flags Etc – Rubble
This Poison! – Driving Skills
Carpenter Joe – The Path Of Most Resistance
Kid Sinister – The Cradle Born
Almost Charlotte – Frustration
Men Of Westenesse – Boating
The Honeymooners – Untitled
Action Painting! – Boy Meets World (Alt Version)
Black Cillas – Sebastian
The Thieves – And Then He Died
Ade Moose And Walker – Lounge Around
Gradapenda Rosindale – Bad Days Must End
The Wildhouse – Ficca
My Rate: 10/10
Áudio de “The Windmills – The Day Dawned On Me”
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The Windmills – Sunlight (2001)
23/07/10
British guitar pop group the Windmills follow in the footsteps of such great guitar pop bands like the House of Love, the Weather Prophets, the Go-Betweens, and Lloyd Cole and the Rattlesnakes. They have the same ringing, jangling guitar and propulsive drumming. Roy Thrilwall has a world-weary mope of a voice that is eerily reminiscent of Lawrence of Felt at times. Like the songs of the aforementioned bands, the songs on Sunlight are mostly depressing and heartbroken: “Pounds, Shilling and Pence” and “When It Was Winter” are almost desolate in a shrugged-shoulders kind of way. Even the jauntily titled “Be Groovy or Leave” is a downer, since it isn’t the singer giving the command, he’s on the receiving end. Bummer. While the Windmills don’t quite reach the level of their influences, Sunlight is a pretty good record and is recommended to fans of sensitive British guitar pop. ~ Tim Sendra, AMG
My Rate: 9.8/10
Áudio de “She’s So Hard”
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Broder Daniel – Broder Daniel (1996)
05/07/10
WIKIPEDIA Broder Daniel (often abbreviated BD) was an alternative rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in the late 1980s and then consisted of classmates Henrik Berggren and Daniel Gilbert. The band claims they started playing “to gain social respect” and it was decided early on that emotional expression would be more important to their sound than musical correctness.
Musically, they have been inspired by bands such as The Jesus And Mary Chain, Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, relying heavily on distorted guitars and simple arrangements. Their lyrics have mostly centered around existential issues and youth angst.
Broder Daniel was largely regarded as an entitative cornerstone of Swedish alternative music during the 1990s, even though the band has proven to be quite unstable ever since the beginning, with members leaving the band every few years.
My Rate: 6.8/10
Vídeo de “Underground”
Fungi Girls – Seafaring Pyramids (2009)
16/06/10
PLAY PINBALL! What the fuck do internet-era kids do when they’re growing up in the middle of nowhere with an understanding of great music? What do they do when they’re cuttin’ their teeth on records that took you (and us) years to get into? What do you do when you’re desperate to leave the dunkest of the podunk towns you’re stuck in and find all that punk, stoner rock, indie and surf music you’ve only heard from some weirdo record collector who beats off to your myspace pictures? Where does that leave you when you’re too young to even drive to a show you were booked on?
It leaves you to get high and try and capture everything you’ve heard with everything you can get your hands on. In doing so, Fungi Girls have recorded a blistering album of concise and experimental songs ranging from shoegazing grooves and stoner rock riffage to psychedelic pop freakouts, channeling everything their teenage brains can handle. Eight songs round out their debut LP recorded and produced by Jason Kelly (The Wax Museums, Fergus & Geronimo) in March and June of 2009. LP limited to 520 Copies. 400 black vinyl, 50 fungi green vinyl (sold out), 50 gold vinyl (sold out), and 20 Denton/Austin-only purple vinyl(sold out) at 45RPM.
My Rate: 8/10
Áudio de “Pacifica Nostalgia”
The Babies – Meet Me In The City 7″ (2010)
11/06/10
SOUNDSXP Babies’ second single is as good as their first. ‘Meet Me In the City’ (Make A Mess Records 7”) is fast and dislocated pop, sounding very New York new wavey. Kevin Morby sings, Cassie Ramone adds backing but the best thing about it is the immense and uplifting join-in-able chorus. The flip, ‘Somebody Else’, is another great lo-fi DIY effort too, straightforwardly catchy with great minimalist guitar solos out of school-of-Pete-Shelley. Another corker.
My Rate: 9.5/10
Áudio de “Meet Me In The City”
Sourpatch – Crushin’ (2010)
10/06/10
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME Romance is a tumultuous place, filled with feelings almost always unspoken and rarely understood. If pop music does anything at all, it helps the painful awkwardness that romance breeds and promotes a certain unmatched sincerity. San Jose natives, Sourpatch, know all about this dynamic. They play with a rough, but beautiful indie pop/punk sound that grabs at influences from both Britain and Coastal United States. A cross between the chicken and the egg, Sourpatch exists in the giant realm of 90′s pop worship, where honesty (no matter how unflattering) reins supreme. Initially comprised of three members: Nicole Munoz on guitar and vocals, Christine Tupou on guitar and vocals, and Rich Gutierrez on drums-- joined shortly after their first show by Mandi Ferrell on bass; The band started as an idea for a Go Sailor/Tiger Trap cover band, but quickly took flight as a project of it’s own. The four have been playing beautiful noise together for over a year and a half now--in which time, they’ve managed two small U.S. Coastal tours (East and West), self-released a seven song demo, a single on WIAIWYA from England, and played the San Francisco Pop Fest. The band’s newest venture is a LP released on HHBTM Records. The thirteen song release, appropriately titled “Crushin’”, is predominately about the perils of confused romance, feelings unrelinquished and blurred friendships, content reminiscent of songs written by Pam Berry, Rose Melberg and Amelia Fletcher over a decade and a half ago. A great majority of the original set list were songs that Munoz, previously in the San Jose all girl band Miss Flo, had written and been working on with Tupou a few years prior to the Sourpatch’s existence.
My Rate: 7/10
Vídeo de “I Want You Either Way”
Velocity Girl – Copacetic (1993)
10/06/10
ALLMUSIC Although Velocity Girl never made the major-label leap of bands like Belly or Veruca Salt, it certainly wasn’t for lack of talent. But it is difficult to imagine their first proper album, Copacetic, with anything other than indie-label production values. It’s essentially a post-shoegazer update of R.E.M.-ish jangle pop, which covers two of the most popular reference points in early-’90s indie pop. What makes Velocity Girl stand out is their songcraft and the way they constantly play with the balance of that equation. Sarah Shannon‘s girlish voice and sweet melodies are often wrapped in fuzzed-out white noise that simply wouldn’t have the same effect if it were polished up. However, the band doesn’t rely exclusively on it; some numbers trade the wall-of-noise guitars for straight-up collegiate power pop, but more often, they shuffle back and forth between the two extremes. As a result, perfect three-minute pop singles sit comfortably next to up-tempo rockers and dreamy, blissed-out slow numbers. Sure, the band is derivative of its influences, but those influences are smartly reassembled in a way that’s both typical of its time and very well-executed. And, with its shifting balance between melody and noise, lightness and haze, Copacetic is the album that best encapsulates Velocity Girl’s appeal. ~ Steve Huey
My Rate: 8/10
Vídeo de “Crazy Town”
The Frenchmen – Sorry We Ruined Your Party (2004)
09/06/10
ALLMUSIC The Frenchmen are a bit of an anomaly. Aside from not being all men or even from France, the band’s music would likely fit better with K Records than dream pop aficionados Clairecords. Nonetheless, the Sacramento band has its lo-fi indie pop down pat, recalling twee bands like Tiger Trap and Beat Happening. In fact, any of the brief, lighthearted songs on Sorry We Ruined Your Party could be mistaken as those bands. Full of jangly guitars and cymbal crashes, two-minute melodies like “Runaway” and “Crimes of Fashion” have the innocence of a party without the drugs. That may very well make the band come off as uncorrupted, but the quartet’s lyrics look at the downside of relationships, favoring songs about broken hearts and getting stood up rather than basking in the romance of holding hands. The vocals are sometimes a bit muddy as they get washed into the rawness, though that only adds to the sincerity. ~ Kenyon Hopkin
My Rate: 7.5/10
The Ropers – All The Time (1995)
09/06/10
ALLMUSIC This D.C. area quartet throw a delectable curveball on their debut LP. They haven’t completely abandoned the glorious, chunky guitar-pop of the self-titled six-song EP, as much as toned it down subtly, bringing out a more spiritual side. Now it seems they are content to let the bass do more of the talking, New Order style — in fact, the excellent single off the LP, “Revolver,” hints mightily of that band’s 1985 Lowlife hit “Love Vigilantes” — while the guitar softly knells and whispers along side it. Fortunately, the tunes and the delicate playing are so strong that this only makes the Ropers an even more interesting band. Besides, on tracks such as “You Have a Light” and the wonderful “Revolver” especially, they have a reaching quality that can be powerfully stirring. Light touches of cello add a mournful element, and one track breezes into the next as delightfully as the last, thanks to Ultra Vivid Scene honcho Kurt Ralske’s flowing production (perhaps he’s forgiven for the first Lotion LP), capturing the unsullied, clean sound. Last of all, “Drive” compares favorably to the slower, more dirgy tracks by Ride (think “Nowhere”). All the Time is a surprising, unassuming little marvel, one of the best 1995 indie-America produced. ~ Jack Rabid.
My Rate: 9/10
Vídeo de “Revolver”
Fonda – Catching Up To The Future (2003)
29/05/10
ALLMUSIC Fonda’s third album, Catching Up to the Future, is also their best and most realized record yet. Although it was recorded in bits and pieces, often by one member at a time, the album amazingly sounds like the work of a quintet playing together in the studio. The sound is mostly sunny guitar pop with the occasional cloudy ballad thrown in for balance. Vocalist Emily Cook has a rich style reminiscent of classic indie pop singers like Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly and Miki Berenyi of Lush. In fact, the band’s sound is also very musically similar to Lush and other bands of the early-’90s shoegaze/alternative scene (Catherine Wheel, Ride, House of Love): a wall of gauzy guitars, vintage synths and organs, layered vocal harmonies, insistent but not up-front drums. Anyone who is nostalgic for that sound should find Fonda to be a soothing balm. Soothing but not exciting, pleasant but not essential, Fonda’s music is much like that of their guitarist/producer David Newton‘s former band, the Mighty Lemon Drops. Sounds great, less filling. They never came up with the songs to really make their sound come alive. Same with Fonda. Their songs pass by in a blur of similarity and amiability, making for fine background music but never doing much to engage the listener or make them drop everything and really listen. It could be a lot worse, and pleasant isn’t all that bad a thing to be, but there are just so many bands out there playing with passion and imagination that it is hard to imagine anyone listening to Catching Up to the Future more than once. [by Tim Sendra]
My Rate: 7/10
Vídeo de “Surrender” (Live)
