TADA TÁTÀ
CDEP
Tada Tátà EP
Cosy
Tada Tátà is Tanya Andersson and The Friend (with a little help from a lot of friends) from Northern Sweden. They have created this lovely debut seven track CDR-EP, released on Stockholm label Cosy. Intimate, sugar-sweet and beautifully orchestrated pop songs in the same league as The Motifs, Band In Box and Pipas! Tracklist: “Someone (Intro)”, “Hit The Wall”, “The Brigade”, “Sticky Dumb Gum”, “Afterschool Activities”, “Ebony” and “Anyone (Outro)”.
55 SEK
TEARS RUN RINGS
CD
Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never
Clairecords
When members of Tears Run Rings didn’t play well with a big-shot producer, they threw away the old material and set off to create an album on their own. There was only one dilemma: they were now living in three different cities. This Portland and Seattle by way of L.A. collaboration was accomplished in the style of the Postal Service; occasional weekends together produced the frameworks for songs that took shape as they swapped tracks using CDRs and the good ‘ole internet. Three years and one self-released EP later, Tears Run Rings presents its debut full length, “Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never”. Tears Run Rings features ex-members of The Autocollants, Laura Watling, and both of the masterminds behind Shelflife Records. These pop veterans have abandoned their twee roots and traded it for dense, wall-of-sound arrangements and aggressive distorted guitars - but that’s not to say they have forgotten their pop sensibilities. TRR distances themselves from 90’s shoegazers with upfront vocals and catchy single-note guitar riffs. Their creation is melodically rich, brimming with layers of boy-girl vocals inspired by the harmonies of 60s groups such as The Lennon Sisters and The Caravelles. One of the album strengths is its flow through a range of different tempos and the most powerful element of “Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never” is the deep, heartfelt (and occasionally heartbreaking) conviction heard here. But maybe this comes natural for band members who spend most of their time wishing they could just be together. Tracklist: “Happiness, Part One”, ”How Will The Others Survive?”, ”Beautiful Stranger”, ”Fall Into Light”, ”The Weight Of Love”, ”World Upside Down”, ”Waiting For The End”, ”Mind The Wires”, ”Run Run Run”, ”Send Me Back” and ”Happiness, Part Two”.
130 SEK
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
7"
Now That I´m A Junkie
Little Teddy
Two track 7” single released by Little Teddy in 1996, featuring two Dan Treacy songs: “Now That I'm A Junkie” and “How Does It Feel To Be Loved?”.
45 SEK
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
7"
Time Goes Slowly When You´re Drowning
Little Teddy
Two track 7” single released by Little Teddy in 1995, featuring two psych pop songs: “Time Goes Slowly When You're Drowning” and “Meanwhile In A Luxury Dockland Home”.
45 SEK
THEE HUMBUG #5
Fanzines
Fifth issue of Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation’s Thee Humbug fanzine contains interviews with Slow Down Tallahassee, Rotary Ten, The Chiara Ls, Atoness, The Jakpot, Dave Woodcock, Situationists and many more. Articles on the Victorian ipod, music from the 1920s, Victorian celebrity culture, and more... 36 pages in English. Comes with a compilation CD. Tracklist: Slow Down Tallahassee “Down The Alleyway”, Hands & Knees “Into The Cold Lake”, The Chiara Ls “Odio”, Situationists “We Are Weightless”, Dave Woodcock “Firewater”, Atoness “Waiting For The Monkeys”, The Jakpot “The Turning Point”, Rotary Ten “I Fear The Field”, The Hair “Ghosts”, Twenties interlude, The Friendly Wilson “Fingers and Thumbs” and Poisonous Little Creatures “Beyond All Reason”.
40 SEK
THEE HUMBUG #6
Fanzines
Sixth issue of Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation’s Thee Humbug fanzine contains interviews with The Bon Bon Club, Grammatics, The Voluntary Butler Scheme, Downdime, Calf By Calf and many more. 36 pages in English. Comes with a compilation CD. Tracklist: The Voluntary Butler Scheme ”Trading Things In”, Something Like Fire ”Little Man Yellow”, The Bon Bon Club ”Lullaby”, Grammatics ”The Manageress”, Laura Groves ”I Am Leaving”, Calf By Calf ”Now That I’m A Viking My Life Is Much More Exciting”, Downdime ”Hate The Morning”, Louis Romegoux ”Roses”, Champion Kickboxer ”Master Of Dancing”, Something Like Fire ”New World Wonder”, The Rocky Nest ”Journeys End” and MJ Hibbett ”Honey Honey You Work Too Late”.
40 SEK
THEE HUMBUG SPECIAL EDITION
Fanzines
A special edition of Thee Shefield Phonographic Corporation’s fanzine Thee Humbug. This issue is dedicated in total to Stoke-On-Trent’s Horowitz and features two interviews, lyrics, Horowitz “I Need A Blanket Box Set EP” CD single with three new tracks (“I Need A Blanket”, “Animal Soup” and “It’s Better To Eat Twinkies With Yr Friends Than To Eat Broccoli Alone”), Horowitz “I Need A Blanket” DVD, a Horowitz postcard and a Horowitz badge set! 16 pages in English.
65 SEK
TIGER TAPE
CD
I Woke Up in Hökarängen
Lo And Behold / Cosy
Tiger Tape was officially born in 2010, but the band has played together since 2006 under the name Moofish Catfish, who previously released two CDR albums on Cosy Recordings. The first, “On A Sunbeam To Your Heart”, was released in 2008, and the second, “Yours To Share”, was released in 2009. “I Woke Up In Hökarängen” is the debut from the Stockholm all-girl quartet Tiger Tape. It’s a following their previous sound with an original and jangly guitar pop/post punk pop with lovely choruses somewhere in the regions of Rough Bunnies, Soda Fountain Rag, My Darling YOU!, Fidget, Broder Daniel and Honey Is Cool. Tracklist: “Is It Me Or Everyone Else?”, “Keep Dancing”, “I Will Never Hold Your Hand”, “Way Too Young”, “She Is Fiction”, “With Those Sunglasses”, “Sunday Walks”, “You're Not Really Into Girls”, “Let's Work Things Out”, “Skanstull” and “Just A Cat”.
145 SEK
TILLMANNS
CD
A Careless Lifestyle
Fraction Discs
After two 7” singles it’s finally time for the Göteborg duo Tillmanns first album, and “A Careless Lifestyle“ is a much longed-for debut CD. Because many of us have missed the sound of winding, ethereal guitars and sweeping, synthetic layers over minimalistic beats. The sound is well-known from a golden era when labels such as Sarah Records­ and Factory spread little grains of gold like The Wake, New Order, The Durutti Column, Stockholm Monsters and The Field Mice. But, there’s another thread that through the North Sea connects the Northern Britain with our West Coast: the eternal lashing of rain at bus stops, on windscreens and window-ledges. And the light after the rain: the shimmering, but with a darker undertone. The art of balancing those contrasts - maybe this is what seizes us and sends us into a soft hypnosis, that actually can make us long for the autumn to burst into splendid colours: yellow, orange, red.... Tracklist: “Heavy Rotation”, “Background”, “Hypnosis”, “Cold Hands”, “Instrumental”, “Opening”, “New Place”, “Here's A Hit With Them In Mind”, “Twist” and “Time”.
100 SEK
TILLMANNS
7"
Run EP
Fraction Discs
The duo Tillmanns consists of Anders Tillman and Björn Fridholm, who make their debut with “Run EP”, four tracks with metallic guitar sounds winding through layers of icy, minimalistic synthesizers and pulsating drum machines. Life-affirming pop melodies where melancholia is right underneath the surface. Tillmanns sound like no others today, an electric dream in bleached colours accompaning rainy and windy pavements somewhere in Göteborg where echoes of The Field Mice, The Wake, My Bloody Valentine and Stockholm Monsters can be heard. Tracklist: “Run”, “My London Love”, “Twist (Spaced-Out)” and “Background”.
45 SEK
THE TOMATOMETERS
CDS
Boys Would Always Look Down
Edition 59
“Boys Would Always Look Down” is a three track 3” CDR from English one-man project The Tomatometers, released on Berlin based label Edition 59. Beautiful strumming indiepop influenced by the elegant pop of the 80’s. Tracklist: “Boys Would Always Look Down”, “Unless” and “British Airways”.
60 SEK
TREMBLING BLUE STARS
CDEP
Bathed In Blue Extended Play
Elefant
“Bathed In Blue Extended Play” is the second single taken from the Trembling Blue Stars’ fifth long player “The Seven Autumn Flowers”. Beside the two versions of the main track you’ll find four new and previously unreleased songs from Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library). Tracklist: “The Sea Is So Quiet (Radio)”, “Through The Silence And Games”, “The Sea Is So Quiet (Long Version)”, “Wounded Light”, “Branches” and “This Is Bliss”.
55 SEK
TREMBLING BLUE STARS
CDEP
Exploring The Shadows Extended Play
Elefant
“Exploring The Shadows Extended Play” contains four exclusive new songs from Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library) that were recorded as part of "The Last Holy Writer" sessions, Trembling Blue Stars’ sixth album. The first track “Beautiful Blank” is sung by Beth Arzy (Aberdeen). Tracklist: ”Beautiful Blank”, “As Easy As Being Alone”, “Outside Looking Elsewhere” and “And Then Silence”.
55 SEK
TREMBLING BLUE STARS
CD
Her Handwriting
LTM
On this debut album, originally issued in 1996, Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, The Occasional Keepers) writes and performs almost all the material, assisted by co-producer Ian Catt of St Etienne. This remastered CD features both album and single versions of “Abba On The Jukebox”, the song placed at 19 in John Peel's Festive 50 for 1996, plus the b-side “She's Always There” as well as a previously unreleased demo version of “Less Than Love”. New artwork and liner notes by Michael Hill, 17 tracks, 74 minutes of music. Tracklist: “A Single Kiss”, “For This One”, “What Can I Say To Change Your Heart?”, “Abba On The Jukebox”, “The Far Too Simple Beauty”, “Less That Love”, “Less Than Love (Reprise)”, “Do People Ever?”, “Last Summertime's Obsession”, “A London Story”, “Saffron Beautiful & Brown Eyed”, “Nobody But You”, “Two Octobers”, “To Keep Your Heart Whole”, “Abba On The Jukebox (7" Version)”, “She's Always There (B Side)” and “Less Than Love (Early Version)”.
125 SEK
TREMBLING BLUE STARS
CD
Lips That Taste Of Tears
LTM
The second Trembling Blue Stars album, originally released on the Shinkansen label in 1998. This digitally remastered and expanded edition also includes satellite single “The Rainbow”, plus b-side track “Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms”, as well as revised artwork and liner notes by Michael Hill. 15 tracks, 74 minutes of music. Tracklist: “All I Never Said”, “Headlights”, “Never Loved You More”, “The Rainbow”, “Made For Each Other”, “Letter Never Sent”, “I'm Tired I've Tried”, “You've Done Nothing Wrong Really”, “Old Photographs”, “Never Loved You More 2”, “Deserve”, “Cecilia In Black And White”, “Tailspin”, “Farewell To Forever” and “Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms”.
125 SEK
TRY HAPPINESS #3
Fanzines
Interviews/articles on My Favorite, Patrik Torsson, The Second-Hand Furniture, Lovejoy, Matinée Recordings, Bart Cummings, Red Square and lots of reviews. 68 pages in Swedish (English translation available)
20 SEK
TULLYCRAFT
CD
Beat Surf Fun
Little Teddy
Third album by US cult indiepop band Tullycraft that blends pop and punk, responsible for such meta-pop classics as “Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About” and “Twee”. Tracklist: “Twee”, “Glitter & Twang”, ”Christine, ND”, ”Wild Bikini”, ”DIY Queen”, ”Cowgirls On Parade”, ”I Kept The Beach Boys”, ”Orange Cake Mix”, ”Knockout”, ”Radio Theme”, ”Sent To The Moon” and ”Who Needs What”.
145 SEK
TULLYCRAFT
LP
Beat Surf Fun
Little Teddy
Third album by US cult indiepop band Tullycraft that blends pop and punk, responsible for such meta-pop classics as “Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About” and “Twee”. Tracklist: “Twee”, “Glitter & Twang”, ”Christine, ND”, ”Wild Bikini”, ”DIY Queen”, ”Cowgirls On Parade”, ”I Kept The Beach Boys”, ”Orange Cake Mix”, ”Knockout”, ”Radio Theme”, ”Sent To The Moon” and ”Who Needs What”.
145 SEK
TULLYCRAFT
CD
Disenchanted Hearts Unite
Little Teddy
Fourth album by US cult indiepop band Tullycraft that blends pop and punk, responsible for such meta-pop classics as “Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About” and “Twee”. Tracklist: “Stowaway”, “Our Days In Kansas”, “Every Little Thing”, “Leaders Of The New School”, “The Last Song”, “Molly’s Got A Crush On Us”, “Polaroids From Mars”, “Rumble With The Gang Debs”, “Fall 4 U”, “Girl About Town”, “Building The Robot” and “Secretly Minnesotan”.
145 SEK
TULLYCRAFT
LP
Disenchanted Hearts Unite
Little Teddy
Fourth album by US cult indiepop band Tullycraft that blends pop and punk, responsible for such meta-pop classics as “Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About” and “Twee”. Tracklist: “Stowaway”, “Our Days In Kansas”, “Every Little Thing”, “Leaders Of The New School”, “The Last Song”, “Molly’s Got A Crush On Us”, “Polaroids From Mars”, “Rumble With The Gang Debs”, “Fall 4 U”, “Girl About Town”, “Building The Robot” and “Secretly Minnesotan”.
145 SEK
TULLYCRAFT
CD
Every Scene Needs A Center
Magic Marker
Tullycraft is known for writing indie pop anthems. Over the years, the band has penned a handful of songs that practically define the twee movement in America. It would be a safe statement to say that the new album, “Every Scene Needs A Center”, picks up where the band’s fourth album, “Disenchanted Hearts Unite”, left off, but that would also be selling Tullycraft short. This new album, recorded entirely on analog tape, is not simply a collection of wonderfully snarky pop songs with one or two anthems thrown in, but is an entire record of ultra-catchy, smart indie pop anthems that takes aim at vampires, the English class system, goth waitresses, and much more. This time around, Tullycraft may have actually crafted a twee masterpiece. Tracklist: “The Punks Are Writing Love Songs”, “Fangs On Bats”, “Georgette Plays A Goth”, “Bored To Hear Your Heart Still Breaks”, “Clique At Night Vandals”, “Dracula Screams Of Tiger Style (Parts 1&2)”, “The Lonely Life Of The UFO Researcher”, “A Cursed Miss Maybellene”, “If You Take Away The Make-Up (Then The Vampires They Will Die)”, “Misgiving”, “The Neutron”, “One Essex Girl”, “The Secret History Of Devil’s Paw” and “We Know You’re Cute, You Told Us”.
140 SEK
TULLYCRAFT
7"
Our Days In Kansas
Little Teddy
“Our Days In Kansas” is taken from the new Tullycraft album “Disenchanted Hearts Unite”. The flipside of this single features the exclusive tracks “Sad, Sad, Day” (Remix) and “Wild Bikini” (Swedish Radio Session).
45 SEK
TWIG
7"
Ciao Ciao Bomb
Cloudberry
Excellent two-track single from Stockholm guitar pop trio Twig. Listening to these lovely produced tracks is like opening a time capsule, sealed somewhere in UK around the first years of the 80’s, with a young Edwyn Collins singing over an unknown Wild Swans track… Or The Lotus Eaters covering Felt. This is the very first 7” vinyl single on Miami based Cloudberry records, known for releasing lots of great jangly pop on 3” CDR. Tracklist: “Ciao Ciao Bomb” and “Wentworth”. Highly recommended!
55 SEK
TWIG
7"
Hourglass and Scattered Dreams
Fraction Discs
Twig was one of the many bands who showed up during the early 00s in Stockholm – a very creative era for the Swedish indiepop music scene – put out a few CDR releases, and then fell silent for a few years… That is why, when American indiepop label Cloudberry released their double A-side ”Ciao Ciao Bomb / Wentworth” as the first vinyl single on the label, we were both surprised and excited, as we had presumed that they had quit playing together. This was of no importance however, as one of the best Swedish bands around had suddenly re-emerged – no doubt influenced by British 80s pop and inumerable hours spent at libraries in the Swedish capital. Singer Henrik Linden’s Edwyn Collins-like voice combined with Mathias Nilsson’s chiming, jangly guitars (just the way they sounded during the heydays of Felt) completely blew our minds! Later followed a brilliant debut album, “Life After Ridge”, on Peruvian label Plastilina, celebrated gigs… and yet another long wait for new releases from this magnificent three-piece. So, it is with great pride We present a new double A-side single with the band. On ”Hourglass / Scattered Dreams” we meet the very same Twig that we know from their earlier releases, only with a more refined sound. Ville Hopponen from Finnish pop elegants Cats On Fire makes a guest appearance behind the drums which, on “Hourglass”, adds new dynamics and energy to the rhythm section on this Twig hit, where they succeed in sounding both explosive and moderate at the same time. On the flip side we find ”Scattered Dreams”, a more melancohlic tune, where Kalle Berglund sets the mood by joining the band on saxophone. All neatly wrapped up in the characteristic fable sleeve design by Joakim Bengtsson this ressembles nothing else today. The parts may be familiar, but the whole, with Henrik Lindens sharp lyrics, turns into something of their own. Something we dare say is unique today. Included is a code that allows you to download the songs in mp3 format. Tracklist: ”Hourglass” and ”Scattered Dreams”.
45 SEK
TWIG
CD
Life After Ridge
Plastilina
”Life After Ridge” is the eagerly awaited debut album from Swedish pop trio Twig, who’s been around for a couple of years and then suddenly struck everyone by surprise with the release of the fabulous “Ciao Ciao Bomb” 7” single, released on Cloudberry earlier this year. We wrote excitingly about it, comparing the sound of Twig to that of Edwyn Collings, Wild Swans, Lotus Eaters and Felt. This is partly true when it comes to this album because the sound is much more varied than that, ranging from the dubby ending of “At Work And At Home” (with guest vocals from Sarah Nyberg Pergament a k a Action Biker) the almost Moz-like guitar popism “Please Don’t Turn Me Into A Murderer” and the New Order backdrop of ought-to-be-a-hit “Indigo”. What’s really linking this together is the excellent lyrics and songwriting. Twig is without a doubt one of the finest Swedish indiepop acts right now – although the music still sound like it’s made sometime in the 80’s, a long-time lost gem, rediscovered (maybe in a library?) and a triumphant return to the stage... no, it’s even better, because this is actually happening now! Tracklist: “Ciao Ciao Bomb”, “Indigo”, “You Look Different #2”, “Constance and her Cousin”, “At Work and at Home”, “Please Don't Turn Me Into a Murderer”, “Close Up”, “You Look Different #1”, “Devil Talking to You”, “Helen of Troy” and ”Dangerous Kind”. Highly recommended!
140 SEK