DANDELION WINE
7"
Daytime
Marineville
The debut single from Dandelion Wine, released in 1992 on revived Marineville Records – and still in print! Two post-Razorcuts guitar pop tracks from Tim Vass (Razorcuts, Red Chair Fadeaway). Tracklist: “Daytime” and “High And Low”.
45 SEK
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
CD
Death By Chocolate
Siesta
Death By Chocolate is pop as play. A wonderworld where anything is possible and where the only boundaries are those of the imagination. Her remarkable, eclectic, humorous records are a montage of toy psychedelia, surrealism, bubblegum and escapist fantasy. A strange, pleasantly disorientating mosaic of songs and monolgues, where Angela gives typically irresistible beguilingly understated vocal performances. Death By Chocolate - or more especially Angie Tillett - has everything; feminism, tease, espionage, empire, gastronomy, travel, cinema... the fun of commodity. The whole excerise is joyful fancy. The idea that with humour and imagination, anything and everything is possible; a liberating philosophy in the face of which turgid modern, “proper” “serious” so-called pop doesn’t really stand a chance. Her first programme “Death By Chocolate” includes interpretations of “Magpie” the theme to the liberal british seventies tv children’s magazine programme of the same name, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s acid parody “The LS Bumble Bee” and “If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out” -a Cat Stevens composition- originally sung as a duet by Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort onscreen in the great 1971 Hal Ashby black comedy “Harold And Maude”. “The Land Of Chocolate”, “A B & C” and “The Salvador Dali Murder Mystery” are charming, funny, precocious essays in pop art, a disarmingly simple and original new approach to modern psychedelia and surrealism. Tracklist: “Mustard Yellow”, “Magpie”, “Sky Blue”, “The Land Of Chocolate”, “Orange”, “My Friend Jack”, “Daddy’s Out Of Focus”, “Olive”, “Ice Cold Lemonade”, “The Is Bumble Bee”, “A B & C”, “Red”, “Rainbow With A Underneath & An Elephant”, “Who Needs Wings To Fly? (From The Flying Nun)”, “The Salvador Dali Murder Mystery”, “If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out”, “Is Bumble Bee (The Bee Is Coming)”.
140 SEK
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
LP
Death By Chocolate
Siesta
Death By Chocolate is pop as play. A wonderworld where anything is possible and where the only boundaries are those of the imagination. Her remarkable, eclectic, humorous records are a montage of toy psychedelia, surrealism, bubblegum and escapist fantasy. A strange, pleasantly disorientating mosaic of songs and monolgues, where Angela gives typically irresistible beguilingly understated vocal performances. Death By Chocolate - or more especially Angie Tillett - has everything; feminism, tease, espionage, empire, gastronomy, travel, cinema... the fun of commodity. The whole excerise is joyful fancy. The idea that with humour and imagination, anything and everything is possible; a liberating philosophy in the face of which turgid modern, “proper” “serious” so-called pop doesn’t really stand a chance. Her first programme “Death By Chocolate” includes interpretations of “Magpie” the theme to the liberal british seventies tv children’s magazine programme of the same name, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s acid parody “The LS Bumble Bee” and “If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out” -a Cat Stevens composition- originally sung as a duet by Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort onscreen in the great 1971 Hal Ashby black comedy “Harold And Maude”. “The Land Of Chocolate”, “A B & C” and “The Salvador Dali Murder Mystery” are charming, funny, precocious essays in pop art, a disarmingly simple and original new approach to modern psychedelia and surrealism. Tracklist: “Mustard Yellow”, “Magpie”, “Sky Blue”, “The Land Of Chocolate”, “Orange”, “My Friend Jack”, “Daddy’s Out Of Focus”, “Olive”, “Ice Cold Lemonade”, “The Is Bumble Bee”, “A B & C”, “Red”, “Rainbow With A Underneath & An Elephant”, “Who Needs Wings To Fly? (From The Flying Nun)”, “The Salvador Dali Murder Mystery”, “If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out”, “Is Bumble Bee (The Bee Is Coming)”.
135 SEK
THE DEIRDRES
CDEP
Why Do My Glasses Give You The Heeby Jeebys
Cosy
Five track CDR-EP from the Derby, UK seven-piece The Deirdres, released on Swedish CDR label Cosy recordings. Fun, frenzy, eccentric and filled with fine melodies, but not in a very traditional way. Fits perfect between those early Girlfrendo singles, Bearsuit, Talulah Gosh and The Bobby McGee’s. Tracklist: “Milk Is Politics”, “Electro Magic”, “Rise And Fall”, “Ball In A Cup” and “Choose A Partner”.
45 SEK
DISLOCATION DANCE
CD
Midnight Shift + Singles
LTM
“Midnight Shift” is the second album from Manchester’s eclectic pop pioneers, originally released on Rough Trade in 1983. Dislocation Dance toured with Orange Juice and The Pale Fountains in the early 80’s, and found inspiration in pop, jazz and disco and merged this into their own beautiful pop formula. This CD contains five bonus tracks from the satellite singles “Show Me” and “Violette”, as well as the original version of “St Michelle”, originally released on the Hours/Heures Sans Soleil compilation. Tracklist: “Show Me”, “I'm Doing Fine”, “Here Comes Love”, “Remind Me”, “Tyrannies Of Fun”, “Open Cages”, “Baby Blue”, “With A Reason”, “Mr Zak”, “Bottle Of Red Wine”, “Midnight Shift”, “San Michelle”, “Violette (7")” , “Remind Me (Instrumental)”, “Show Me (12" version)”, “Show Me (Dennis Bovell dub mix)”, “(The Next Year I Returned To) San Michelle (But Marie Had Gone & With Her My Childhood)”.
125 SEK
DISLOCATION DANCE
CD
Music Music Music + Slip That Disc!
LTM
Dislocation Dance toured with Orange Juice and The Pale Fountains in the early 80’s, and found inspiration in pop, jazz and disco and merged this into their own beautiful pop formula. This new digital remaster combines the mini-album “Slip That Disc!” with the debut Dislocation Dance album “Music Music Music”, both released on New Hormones in 1981. Bonus tracks include all sides from the non-album singles “Rosemary” and “You'll Never, Never Know”. Tracklist: “Stand Me Up”,” Don’t Knock Me Down”, “YOPS Course”, “Meeting Mum & Dad”, “Friendship”, “Take A Chance (On Romance)”, “...Have A Dance”, “Roof Is Leaking”, “With A Smile On Your Face & A Frown In Your Heart”, “Vendetta (Theme)”, “Narrow Laughs”, “Footloose”, “Can’t Race Time... And The Mad Killer (Coda)”, “Wonder What I'll Do Tomorrow”, “Rosemary”, “Shake”, “Can't Race Time... And The Mad Killer (Version)”, “You'll Never, Never Know”, “You Can Tell”,” Spare Concern”, “I'll See It”, “It's All True... Panic!”, “We Can Work It Out”, “So Much Fault”, “This Problem”, “Clarinet Source” And “Under One & Over”.
125 SEK
DOROTEA
7"
EP 1
Starke Adolf
The classic debut single on the short-lived Starke Adolf label from favourite Swedish punkpop trio Dorotea. Fronted by the songwriting and vocally splendid Mikael Carlsson (The Honeydrips). Five great, short and snappy songs wrapped in a nice Saul Bass-inspired sleeve. Tracklist: “Decent”, “Let’s Give It A Shot”, “It’s Gonna Be Me (But I Couldn’t Care Less)”, “We’ve Had Enough” and “The Noble Art Of Being Naive”.
40 SEK
DREAMDATE
CD
Patience
Skywriting
”Patience” is the fabulous second album from Dreamdate. Behind the Dreamdate moniker the California girls Yea-Ming Chen and Anna Hillburg make lovely, straight-forward guitar Pop with excellent vocal harmonies. The kind of sweet and daydreamin’ melodies you’re quite sure you’ve heard before. And if you’ve ever fancied the greatness of Dolly Mixture, Hunky Dory, Tiger Trap or Slumber Party you’d better have a listen to “Patience”! Tracklist: “How Long Are You?”, “Tour Song”, “Have I Told You?”, “8 Sleeves”, “Go Fish”, “Anyway”, “Rock And Roll”, “Tables”, “Guilty Pleasures”, “Wait For You”, “Patience” and “Best Friends”. Highly recommended!
125 SEK
THE DREAMERS
CD
Day For Night
Friendly Noise
The Dreamers are an Anglo/Swedish duo featuring Sarah Nyberg Pergament and Kevin Wright. Sarah has previously recorded as Action Biker and Kevin as Always and Mr Wright (recordings from the last 20 years on labels such as él, Le Grand Magistery and Siesta). Meeting at a Swedish music festival in 2004 the pair began by writing the song “Petit Nuage” in late 2005. Encouraged by this an album began taking shape being recorded mostly in London with Sarah’s vocals being sent from Stockholm and Helsinki. The Dreamers’ influences combine many disparate elements including jazz pop and soundtrack music. Although the music is often melancholic the Dreamers hope to make (to paraphrase Michel Legrand speaking of Tom Jobim) “the sad music that makes the world a better place.” Influences: Stan Tracey, Caetano Veloso, Colleen, Francoise Hardy, Kryzystof Komeda, Matching Mole, Anna Karina, Bill Evans, Monica Zetterlund, Nara Leao, Bernard Herrmann, Nico… Tracklist: “One Day In The Woods”, “Day For Night”, “Petit Nuage”, “Piccadilly Night Bus”, “A Place I Know”, “So Near So Far”, “Michael”, “Out Of This World”, “All Across The City” and “Goodnight Farewell My Friend”.
125 SEK
DREAMS END
7"
Death Disco
Smashing Time
Debut single by Göteborg quartet Dreams End on Smashing Time. Energetic and distorted pop, a bit like Joy Divison and early The Jesus & Mary Chain. Three tracks: “Death Disco”, “If You Could Only Know” and “Linda”.
35 SEK
DUM DUM GIRLS
CD
I Will Be
Sub Pop
“I Will Be” is the debut full-length by the Dum Dum Girls. Produced by Dee Dee and Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and, more recently, The Raveonettes), “I Will Be” is neither lo-fi nor too polished. Just under thirty minutes with eleven songs, it’s a short tribute to love, fun and the classic pop form of the ’60s girl groups and early punk rockers. Tracklist: “It Only Takes One Night”, “Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout”, “Oh Mein M”, “Jail La La”, “Rest Of Our Lives”, “Yours Alone”, “Blank Girl”, “I Will Be”, “Lines Her Eyes”, “Everybody’s Out” and “Baby Don’t Go”.
135 SEK
DUM DUM GIRLS
7"
Jail La La
Sub Pop
The fab Dum Dum Girls song “Jail La La” is taken from the debut album “I Will Be”. On the flipside you’ll find a cover of “Play With Fire” by The Rolling Stones. Mixed by Alonzo Vargas and Richard Gottehrer.
50 SEK
THE DURUTTI COLUMN
CD
Circuses And Bread
LTM
LTM’s great reissuing program now includes a couple of CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. “Circuses And Bread” was originally released on the Factory Benelux label in April 1986, and features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, together with drummer Bruce Mitchell. This expanded CD edition also features ten bonus tracks including compilation album tracks “Verbier” and “The Aftermath”, five previously unreleased tracks from the cancelled 1983 album “Short Stories For Pauline”, and the rarely heard 1983 single “I Get Along Without You Very Well”, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade and dedicated to her former husband, Anthony H. Wilson. The booklet restores the original cover design by 8vo. 19 tracks, 74 minutes of music. Tracklist: “Pauline”, “Tomorrow”, “Dance Ii”, “Hilary”, “Street Fight”, “Royal Infirmary”, “Black Horses”, “Dance I”, “Blind Elevator Girl (Osaka)”, “All That Love & Maths Can Do”, “I Get Along Without You Very Well”, “Verbier (For Patti)”, “The Aftermath”, “A Silence”, “Cocktail”, “Telephone Call”, “Mirror A” and “Mirror B”.
125 SEK
THE DURUTTI COLUMN
CD
Lips That Would Kiss
LTM
LTM’s great reissuing program now includes a couple of CDs by The Durutti Column, the legendary Factory Records ensemble formed and fronted by virtuoso guitarist/composer Vini Reilly. This remastered CD collects together a selection of key tracks and singles recorded for Factory Benelux, Les Disques du Crepuscule and Sordide Sentimental between 1980 and 1983, including the pristine singles “Lips That Would Kiss” (recorded with legendary producer Martin Hannett) and “Danny”, and the rare Factory Benelux 12" EP from 1982, “Deux Triangles”. The set also includes several unique tracks recorded for Crepuscule compilation albums, and no less than nine tracks from the unreleased 1983 album “Short Stories For Pauline”, several of which feature Tuxedomoon man Blaine L. Reininger on violin. 19 tracks, 75 minutes of music. Tracklist: “La Douleur”, “Lips That Would Kiss”, “Madeleine”, “Danny”, “Enigma”, “The Sea Wall”, “Snowflakes”, “Little Horses Of Tarquina”, “Experiment In Fifth”, “Take Some Time Out”, “At First Sight”, “Journeys By Vespa”, “Destroy She Said”, “The Square”, “Hommage To Martinu”, “Piece For An Ideal”, “Zinni”, “Favourite Painting” and “Piece For Out Of Tune Grand Piano”.
125 SEK