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| ABERDEEN |
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| What Do I Wish For Now |
LTM
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| Definitive singles and rarities compilation from the Los Angeles-based indie pop combo, including all tracks from their singles on Sarah Records and Tremelo Arm Users Club. The rarities include “Marine Parade” and a cover of Biff Bang Pow's “She Never Undersood”, previously available only on compilation albums. All tracks have been digitally remastered, and just two appear on their album from 2002. Aberdeen are the missing link between The Field Mice (“Emma's House” is also covered) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the band appeared on the show in season 7). Booklet contains a wealth of Aberdeen images and extended band interview/history by Marcus Kagler. Tracklist: “Byron”, “Toy Tambourine”, “Fran”, “Fireworks”, “When It Doesn't Matter”, “Super Sunny Summer”, “Snapdragon”, “I Think I'm Falling”, “Marine Parade”, “She Never Understood”, “Sink or Float”, “Drive”, “The Boy Has Gone Away”, “Miss You Now You're Gone”, “Emma's House”, “Florida”, “Late Bloomr” and “Kyoto Death Song”. |
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| ACID HOUSE KINGS |
CD
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| Sing Along With Acid House Kings |
Labrador
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| Showing untrendy will be the new trend for 2005, Acid House Kings return with a classic blend of 60's Motown and Bacharach, 80's The Smiths and timeless pop perfection. Tracklist: “That's Because You Drive Me”, ”Do What You Wanna Do”, ”This Heart Is A Stone”, ”London School Of Economics”, ”7 Days”, ”I Write Summer Songs For No Reason”, ”Tonight Is Forever”, ”Saturday Train”, ”Sleeping”, ”Will You Love Me In The Morning?”, ”A Long Term Plan” and ”Wipe Away Those Tears”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| AEROSPACE |
CD
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| The Bright Idea Called Soul |
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| 145 SEK |
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| AFTER-SCHOOL SPORTS |
CD
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| A Short Melodrama |
Cosy
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| The debut CDR from Stockholm girl Agnes Luther-Näsholm a k a After School Sports. Lo-fidelity electronic casio-tweepop with great pop melodies. If you’re into Action Biker-styled pop - this is it! Tracklist: “A Short Melodrama (Intro)”, “Charlie’s 18th Birthday”, “eBay Love”, “Smile”, “Almost Left My Bf For His Casio”, “Sweet Catrin Dannenmaier”, “Roe Deers, Cats And Mice”, “Wind Up” and “The Good Night Fable (Outro)”. |
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| 55 SEK |
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| AIRLINER |
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| The Last Days Of August |
Labrador
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| Airliner is basically a solo project from Kristian Rosengren of Aerospace. He’s been writing beautiful and slow pop songs for years and his debut, a split 7” single on Labrador Records, released in 1999. A single which sold out quickly and gained a very good reputation among the pop loving kids around the world. In the spring of 2002, the time was right to start recording the Airliner debut album, “The Last Days Of August”. Johan Angergård of Club 8 and Acid House Kings was hired as producer and the album was recorded in the famous Summersound Studios in Stockholm. The result is here: ten sad and sensitive pop songs about love and loss. For fans of: Trembling Blue Stars, Club 8 and The Montgolfier Brothers. Tracklist: “Trying To Be Clever”, “Everthing That's You”, “One Final Call”, “Nostalgia”, “Always Never”, “Defenses Down”, “Time And Space”, “Always The Last To Know”, “Happiness” and “The Last Days Of August”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE AISLERS SET |
CD
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| The Last Match |
Slumberland
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| Info on this item coming soon. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE AISLERS SET |
CD
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| How I Learned To Write Backwards |
Suicide Squeeze
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| The Aislers Set’s third album, released in 2003. Brimming with drunken romanticism, sharp pop sensibilities and timeless melodies, the new Aislers’ album offers 11 new musical proofs of the power of classic tunes. Helmed by writer/player/producer extraordinaire Amy Linton, The Aislers’ revel in the history of great POP, spiking their classicist 60s-tinged tunes with pure post-punk energy and originality of bands like the Fire Engines and The June Brides. Every song is a meticulously constructed sound world, where the arrangement and instrumentation sublimely, uncannily bring each tune to completeness. Tracklist: “Catherine Says”, “Emotional Levy”, “Languor In The Balcony”, “Mission Bells”, “Sara's Song”, “Attraction Action Reaction”, “Through The Swells”, “The Train #1”, “The Train #2”, “Unfinished Paintings” and “Melody Not Malaise”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE AISLERS SET |
CD
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| Terrible Things Happen |
Slumberland
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| Info on this item coming soon. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE ANYWAYS |
CD
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| Older Than Yesterday |
Marineville
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| The only album/compilation by forgotten Oxford four-piece The Anyways, released in 1994 on Marineville Records. Jangly psychedelic guitarpop in the veins of The Byrds, Razorcuts and The Go-Betweens. Tracklist: “Confession”, ”Now You Are”, ”Some Psychedelic Song”, ”Silver”, ”Sweet Marie”, ”Leave Me Out”, ”Special One”, ”Levitate The Pentagon”, ”Tower Of Fools”, ”Some Kind Of Beautiful Nothing”, ”The Ghost Of Arthur Lee”, ”Black Crow”, ”Seen The World”, ”The Way I’ve Found”, ”Wish Away”, ”Wider”, ”Good Things”, ”Riviera Relation”, ”Something Blue” and ”Off Dope”. |
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| 110 SEK |
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| APPLE ORCHARD |
CD
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| Half-Steps Toward Bright Skies |
Haymarket
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| Two years in the making, “Half-Steps Toward Bright Skies” is Apple Orchard's debut cd. Devised, conceptualized, manipulated, soaked in reverb and realized by brothers Ryan and Dale Marquez, the album, released on the band's own label, Haymarket Recordings, is an assemblage of twelve of the most pensive, melancholic pop tunes the duo has ever written and recorded. Compared to the minimalist lo-fi bedroom pop of the band's early releases, the duo has expanded their sound in Half-Steps Toward Bright Skies as the songs are drenched with layers upon layers of dreamy keyboards and luminous guitars. With song titles like “Weather Patterns” and “Midnight Stars And Kisses”, it's an imperfect soundtrack for the lovelorn, the heartsick and the aimless wanderers. Apple Orchard started out as a solo project by Ryan back in 1999. While listening to a lot of The Sugargliders, The Field Mice, Brighter, Sweet William, a few Sarah Records compilations and playing acoustic guitar along monotonous drum beats off a casiotone became a habit, a few songs were written, mostly schoolboy lyrics and near-whispered melodies. Becoming a duo a year later, Apple Orchard began contributing songs to a number of compilation releases and to this date, has issued three cassette EPs, a 7" single and a 3" cd-r single. Tracklist: “Unfazed”, “Weather Patterns”, “Harsh”, “The Comforts Of Strangers”, “Rain, As We Know It”, “Half-Steps Toward Bright Skies”, “A Fine Warning”, “I Can’t Feel Sorry”, “Dreaming (As The Summer Fades)”, “The Saddest, Perfect Ending”, “Midnight Stars And Kisses” and “The Cloud Fleets”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| THE ARTISANS |
CD
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| The Artisans |
Cloudberry
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| The first edition of Cloudberry’s new Classics series is a much longed-for reissue of all the songs ever recorded by UK indiepop band The Artisans. Included is the two tracks from the “Jazz Serenade” 7” single, released on their own Infidel Records, two tracks that appearad on Slumberland’s “Why Popstars Can’t Dance” compilation and two previously unreleased songs. When first hearing The Artisans: quite a revelation, and quite a big question mark: why haven’t I heard of this band before? Maybe because they put out their releases in the early 90’s, but sounding a lot like the bands coming out of the C86 movement a couple of years earlier: “Jazz Serenade” sounds almost like a long lost track from The Siddeleys! Tracklist: “Jazz Serenade”, “All I Ever Wanted”, “So Surprised”, “Start Again”, “Tolerance” and “Up to Me”. Highly recommended! |
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| 55 SEK |
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| BAND IN BOX |
CD
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| This Fiction |
Stereo Test Kit
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| “This Fiction” is the lovely debut album by Swedish Siri af Burén, a k a Band In Box. Intimate, sweet, mysterious, pattering and with a stinch of experiment (Band In Box will explore a new instrument each month), this album is filled with the kind of beautiful bedroom pop that won’t fit in the ordinary bedroom: guitars, clarinet, piano, melodica, violin, flute, glockenspiel... Tracklist: “Icaria II”, “Elevator Theme”, “Lost & Foundland”, “Nocere”, “Let Your Birds Out”, “When Others Go South”, “Leaving Smears”, “I Was A Bubble Boy”, “The Vault”, “A Spoon That You Can Bend”, “Paper View” and “Slow Release”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE BANK HOLIDAYS |
CD
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| As A Film |
Lost & Lonesome
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| “As A Film” is the wonderful debut album by The Bank Holidays, a pop quartet from Perth, Australia. These twelve songs are filled with excellent melodies and very delightfully arranged boy/girl vocal harmonies. With influences from classic popsmiths such as The Zombies and The Beach Boys they have created a beautiful collection of songs with a dynamic song structure, the kind of songs that are direct and catchy at first listen, and then just grow and grow as you’re exploring the layers in the music. There’s quite a lot of similarities to the sixties sunshine pop in The Bank Holidays’ music. It’s simply pop music, and it’s quite complex pop music without showing off. Tracklist: “The Voice I Hear When I'm Alone”, “Oh Daylight”, “This Elated Height”, “Cheating Cheating”, “Folded In Half”, “Consolation Prize”, “First Things First”, “Like A Piano”, “Teaching Pupils”, “Pits & Gravel”, “Tread Easy” and “There Is A Room On Hold”. Highly recommended! |
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| 130 SEK |
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| BARE KNEES and RAY RUMOURS |
CD
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| Songs To Play At Sleepovers |
Cosy
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| 14 track CDR split album on Swedish DIY label Cosy. Seven tracks from Bare Knees and seven tracks from Ray Rumours. Bare Knees are Kathrin and Kasper, who make charming and playful lo-fi tweepop with guitar, melodica, handclaps, kazoo, toy keybords and drums. Fans of bands like The Diskettes, Marine Girls and Rough Bunnies should definitely pay attention to the fine melodies of Bare Knees! Ray Rumours is the solo project of Ros Murray from Electrelane. Her beautiful and fragile lo-fi bedroom pop songs fits perfectly together with the Bare Knees on this split. Tracklist: Bare Knees: “Wine Stains”, “Love In Stereo”, “Oslo Girls”, “Second Hand eBay Underwear”, “Fidelity (Less Lo-Fi Version)”, “Sleep In Your Bed Tonight” and “Secret Hideout (Ray Rumours Cover)”. Ray Rumours: “Staying In”, “Close The Door”, “Pebbles In The Sea”, “Going Away”, “Tomorrow”, “Rose + Tim (Bare Knees Cover)” and “Never Far From Home”. |
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| 60 SEK |
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| BART & FRIENDS |
CD
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| Make You Blush |
Lost & Lonesome
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| Indiepop purists rejoice! Bart Cummings has reunited with his former Shapiros bandmate Pam Berry and Bart & Friends friend Mark Monnone to help out on this brand new mini album while new friends Louis Richter and Stanley Paulzen drop by to lend a hand. As underground indiepop icons go, Bart is certainly one of Australia’s most enduring and best kept secrets. A founding member of The Cat’s Miaow and later of Hydroplane and Pencil Tin, he has spent two decades warming the hearts of wistful bedsitters the world over. Intimate and conversational in style, Bart’s songs are something of a cross between Yo La Tengo, the Go-Betweens and Felt. And with his inclination for brevity and knack for spinning the most ordinary of situations into something to hold dear, he may also be the pop world’s closest link to Raymond Carver. Over the years, Bart has stayed true this formula; “Make You Blush” heralds his first new recordings since Bart & Friends’ “I Was Lonely ’Til I Found You” mini-album of 2001, and (thankfully, to these ears) he is showing no discernible deviation from the music he was making in the mid-90s: dreamy, jangly and sublime. Tracklist: “A Summer’s Dream”, “Make You Blush”, “These Words Are Too Small”, “Memories Fade”, “Blue Moon”, “Come and See Me”, “Weave Your Name” and “None Of These Things”. Highly recommended! |
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| THE BARTLEBEES |
CD
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| Urban Folk Legends |
Little Teddy
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| This final album by German popsmiths The Bartlebees, released in 1997, is filled with excellent punky indiepop tunes, perfect for fans of Television Personalities and The Pastels. Tracklist: “Hollywood Holiday”, “Comin’ Out, Stayin’ In”, “Nightlife Diplomacy”, “She Loves Monsters”, “Never Found A Woman Worth To Die For”, “And Then Suddenly”, “Deceitful You”, “What You See”, “Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart” and “Nobody’s Lonesome For Me”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE BATS |
CD
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| At The National Grid |
Little Teddy
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| This is The Bats: the jangly rock band from New Zealand, part of the New Zealand bands that were tagged with the kiwi-rock sound amongst other contemporaries The Clean and The Chills. The Bats have gone on to influence many a band. They even have a greatest hits album! Robert Scott, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean, Kaye Woodward - 1 line-up; 23 years; 6 albums; 4 world tours and a new album “At The National Grid” on its way. From the band that brought you the legendary albums “Daddy’s Highway” and “Silverbeet” and after ten years something sparks up when The Bats get together to play. From a mantric like pick and strum of a chord from Robert, add bouncing bass with twist from Paul, a melodic hook from Kaye on guitar and Malcolm on a beat that just makes you want to move and dance. The combination of musical ingredients works perfectly - effortlessly. It’s been like that for 23 years now and the magic doesn’t seem to be fading. That is the essence - apply that magic to Robert’s endless creative outpouring of songs and a recent late blooming from the pen of Kaye Woodward and you get a fine new albums worth of tunes from The Bats in 2005. The Bats have spent more than a decade forging a reputation based on their excellent song writing and reliably buoyant pop performances. On record, they often appear as modern day pastoral musicians, revealing the charms of their music and words in gentle pop epiphanies, while their live performances have gathered acclaim for the energy that the group’s insistently strummy rock instills in crowds. Recording all started at “The National Grid”, John Kelcher’s studio in Christchurch, New Zealand where they did the initial session pretty much live to analogue multi track tape. Alastair Gailbraith, who last featured on The Bats “Law Of Things”, has added his distinctive eclectic electric violin to some tracks.Tracklist: “Western Isles”, “Horizon”, “Hubert”, “The Bells Are Ringing”, “Single File”, “Pre War Blues”, “The Rays”, “Things I Can't Leave Behind”, “Mir”, “Up To The Sky”, “We Do Not Kiss The Ones We Kick”, “The Flowers & The Trees” and “Crazy Crowd” |
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| 145 SEK |
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| THE BATS |
CD
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| The Guilty Office |
Kning Disk
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| Titled “The Guilty Office”, it is yet another masterpiece of original “Bats-sound”; proud and vibrant sunshine-drenched pop, deeply rooted in the nature and universe at the same time... Strong songs, beautiful lyrics, excellent musicianship, eternal joy. The Bats, who started out in Christchurch in 1982, have released numerous records on labels like Flying Nun, and are considered to be one of the most influental bands to come out of the New Zealand scene.The influence and magic continues as strong as ever, and the Bats have done it again; “The Guilty Office” is a true classic! This is the Scandinavian issue of the CD, released on Göteborg label Kning Disk, and comes in a beautiful handmade cover. Tracklist: “Countersign”, “Crimson Enemy”, “Broken Path”, “Like Water In Your Hands”, “Castle Lights”, “Two Lines”, “Satellites”, “Later On That Night”, “Steppin Out”, “The I Specialist”, “The Guilty Office” and“The Orchard”. |
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| BEARS |
CD
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| Bears |
Bears
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| Great self-released debut album from US pop duo Bears. Craig Ramsey and Charlie McArthur have created thirteen charming songs that combine 60’s pop, twee and dreampop. If you’re into classic popsongwriting like The Zombies, The Lucksmiths, The Radio Dept., Rocketship and Elliott Smith this is something for your cd-player! Tracklist: Never Have To Guess”, “Walk Away”, “How To Live”, “Everywhere”, “When You're Away”, “Still Alright”, “Daydreams”, “Over It”, “Days”, “Things I Should Say”, “Goodbye Song”, “Still The Same” and “Stay”. |
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| BEARS |
CD
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| Simple Machinery |
Bears
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| ”Simple Machinery” is the second album from Cleveland pop duo of Charlie McArthur and Craig Ramsey, a k a Bears. This album is filled with beautifully arranged songs, striving for the lazy pop perfection, thirteen tracks that capture those summery days and wrap them in a tender soundscape. The excellent songwriting where echoes of both Rocketship, The Lucksmiths and Elliott Smith can be heard is really spiced up with ace vocal harmonies à la sixties sunshine pop, The Beach Boys and The Zombies. Great! Tracklist: “Please Don't”, “Another Tiger Romance”, “Dolphins”, “Wait and See”, “So Go”, “What Makes Me Happy”, “Letting It Go”, “Since I Met You”, “Subtle Way”, “Never Again”, “Your Help”, “Everything I Need” and “Our Time”. |
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| BEAUMONT |
CD
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| This Is |
Siesta
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| ”This Is” is the gorgeous debut album by Beaumont, released in 2000. After Keith Girdler and Paul Stewart cemented their place in pop history with Blueboy they recorded this lovely album in 1999. The sound is pretty much reminding of Blueboy’s heydays with added bossa and latin influences. Tracklist: ”Introduction”, “Bacharach “, “Hey Barbara “, “Theme From Beaumont “, “Girlie”, “On Campus “, “Girls And Maths “, “Love Is...1968 “, “Aftershave “, “His London “, “City Pretty “ and “Cross Country”. Highly recommended! |
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| 140 SEK |
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| BIFF BANG POW! |
CD
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| Pass The Paintbrush, Honey |
Vollwert
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| Vollwert records of Berlin is doing a true cultural achievement with their Biff Bang Pow! reissue series. First out in the album series is Biff Bang Pow!’s debut album “Pass The Paintbrush, Honey..”, originally released in 1985 on Creation records. This influental guitar pop band was fronted by Alan McGee, who also founded Creation records. Sleevenotes by Joe Foster (Biff Bang Pow!, The Revolving Paint Dream, Slaughter Joe, founder of Rev-Ola and producer of lots and lots of great music including Felt, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Razorcuts and The Sea Urchins). Tracklist: “There Must Be A Better Life”, “Lost Your Dreams”, “Love And Hate”, “The Chocolate Elephant Man”, “Waterbomb!”, “Colin Dobbins”, “Wouldn’t You?” and “A Day Out With Jeremy Chester”. |
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| BIFF BANG POW! |
CD
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| Oblivion |
Vollwert
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| Vollwert records of Berlin is doing a true cultural achievement with their Biff Bang Pow! reissue series. The second in this album series is Biff Bang Pow!’s second album “Oblivion” - originally released in 1987 (the same year as the excellent “The Girl Who Runs The Beat Hotel” album) on Creation records - with classic pop songs such as “She’s Got Diamonds In Her Hair”. This influental guitar pop band was fronted by Alan McGee, who also founded Creation records. Tracklist: “In A Mourning Town”, “There You Go Again”, “7 Seconds”, “A Girl Called Destruction”, “She’s Got Diamonds In Her Hair”, “The Only Colour In This World Is Love”, “Baby Sister”, “Then When I Scream”, “I See The Sun” and “I’m Still Waiting For My Time”. |
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| BLACK TAMBOURINE |
CD
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| Complete Recordings |
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| Black Tambourine were one of the earliest Slumberland groups, consisting of members of Whorl and Velocity Girl, plus their pal Pam Berry on vocals. Conceived as an explicitly pop band at a time when pop bands were pretty rare in America, Black Tambourine wore their influences on their sleeves: The Jesus & Mary Chain, of course, but also folks like Phil Spector, Smokey Robinson, Love, The Ramones, Shop Assistants, The Pastels, 14 Iced Bears, Orange Juice and the list goes on… Though they only played a handful of gigs in their brief career, their two singles on Slumberland and Audrey’s Diary wielded a large influence, and were key artifacts in the birth of US indie pop. This compilation includes all the songs from both of those singles, plus two cuts from compilations and a previously unheard demo song. Liner notes from Jennifer Silver of Swingset Records round-out this important record – check it out! Tracklist: “For Ex-Lovers Only”, “Black Car”, “Pack You Up”, “Can't Explain”, “I Was Wrong”, “Throw Aggi Off The Bridge”, “Drown”, “We Can't Be Friends”, “By Tomorrow” and “Pam's Tan”. |
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| BLUEBOY |
CD
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| The Bank Of England |
Él
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| We often rave about how various reissues are highly anticipated and promptly write “at last!”... this time we’ve run out of superlatives, imperatives and just quitly freak out over the fact that Él Records is reissuing all previously released material by Blueboy! Why? Because Blueboy has made some of the most sophisticated and beautiful songs ever labelled indie pop, no less! “The Bank Of England” is the third installment in (Cherry Red’s subsidiary label) Él Records’ three-part reissue of Blueboy’s all previously released records. This third part includes Blueboy’s third album “The Bank Of England” together with all the tracks from the singles “Love Yourself” and “Marco Polo” – all originally released on Shinkansen Recordings. Tracklist: “Joined-Up Writing”, “Miss UK”, “Love Yourself”, “By Appointment”, “Marco Polo”, “Jennifer Yeah!”, “Disco Bunny”, “Chadwick”, “Ask The Family”, “Bradford Texas”, “Angel At My Table”, “Melancholia” and “What Do People Do All Day?”. |
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| BLUEBOY |
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| Unisex |
Él
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| We often rave about how various reissues are highly anticipated and promptly write “at last!”... this time we’ve run out of superlatives, imperatives and just quitly freak out over the fact that Él Records is reissuing all previously released material by Blueboy! Why? Because Blueboy has made some of the most sophisticated and beautiful songs ever labelled indie pop, no less! “Unisex” is the second installment in (Cherry Red’s subsidiary label) Él Records’ three-part reissue of Blueboy’s all previously released records. This second part includes Blueboy’s second album “Unisex” together with all the tracks from the singles “River” and “Dirty Mags” – all originally released on Sarah Records. Tracklist: “So Catch Him”, “Cosmopolitan”, “Marble Arch”, “The Joy Of Living”, “Fleetway”, “Also Ran”, “Boys Don’t Matter”, “Self Portrait”, “Lazy Thunderstorms”, “Finistere”, “Always There”, “Imipramine”, “So Catch Him (Reprise)”, “River”, “Nimbus”, “Hit”, “Dirty Mags”, “Loony Tunes” and “Toulouse”. Highly recommended! |
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| BRICOLAGE |
CD
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| Bricolage |
Slumberland
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| The symbiotic relationship between Glasgow and an indefinable, distinct breed of extraordinary pop is a subject of limitless fascination. Virtually from the moment the legendary Orange Juice transformed the once barren Scottish metropolis into a wellspring of tuneful, literate, joyous music, special new bands have continued to flow from its environs. From the early-’80s explosion that begat Altered Images, The Pastels and many others, to latter-day heirs such as Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand, the city is as synonymous with the abstract notion of ‘indie’ as Detroit is with the Motown sound or New York with early punk. And now, with the release of their self-titled debut album, Bricolage rightfully take their place as part of Glasgow’s peerless pop lineage. Bricolage – Graham Wann, Wallace Meek, Darren Cameron, and Colin Kearney – formed in late 2005, united by their love of Postcard Records’ evergreen “Sound of Young Scotland” and similarly iconoclastic post-punk heroes including Vic Godard and Fire Engines. In less than two years, the band released three 7-inch singles and toured solidly, sharing stages with the likes of the above-mentioned Godard, a reunited Fire Engines, Franz Ferdinand, even the Sun Ra Arkestra. “Bricolage”, the album, is the realization of those singles’ huge promise. Produced with sparkling economy by former Altered Images guitarist Stephen Lironi, its dozen tracks are the product of its influences, but also a path beyond them. From the swooning romanticism of “Plots Are For Cemeteries”, to the lovesick giddiness of “Turn U Over”, to the Northern Soul-style stomp of “The Waltzers”, this is pop full of melody, verve and wit – for a modern world that is about to discover how badly it needed it. Bricolage may be a new strand in Glasgow’s ongoing musical history, but for Bricolage themselves, this is where their own stunning history truly begins being written. Tracklist: “Bayonets”, ”Flowers Of Deceit”, ”Footsteps”, ”Plots Are For Cemetaries”, ”The Spoilsport’s Retort”, ”Looting Takes The Want Out Of Waiting”, ”A Terrible Souvenir”, ”Turn U Over”, ”6th Form Poet”, ”On The Omnibuses”, ”Sleepwalk To Me” and ”The Waltzers”. |
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| THE BRIDAL SHOP |
CD
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| In Fragments |
Plastilina
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| The lush Bridal Shop continue their voyage through sound between classic indiepop jangle and the dance electronic pop of New Order and The Embassy with this release. Dreamy, beautiful and airy. A 2009 smasher! Tracklist: “Fragments”, “Off-Coloured Jokes”, “Ideal State”, “Advice”, “Out” and “While it Slept”. |
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| BRIDESHEAD |
CD
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| In And Out Love |
Shelflife
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| “In And Out Love”, released in 2002, is a compilation of gems from Brideshead’s previously released 7”s in addition to newly recorded songs. Brideshead combine the best moments in classic P!O!P! - the summer of ‘82 (Orange Juice and The Pale Fountains), the class of ‘86 (Mighty Mighty, McCarthy, The Brilliant Corners, and The Bodines) and the freshness of 90s swedish pop (Eggstone and The Cardigans). Layers of guitars, bass, drums, and trumpet with Martin’s handsome vocals to tie it all together. Tracklist: ”Same Story, Different Day”, “Lie That Tells The Truth”, “Books & TV”, “Sincerely Yours”, “Swinging Love”, “Books ‘n’ Bossa”, “Present Time”, “If You Could Love Me”, “One Your Trail”, “Sysiphos”, “When I’m In Love”, “Life Is Scheduled”, “No Answer” and “Morning”. |
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| BRIGHTER |
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| Out To Sea |
Matinée
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| Essential new 20-track collection of rarities and unreleased tracks from beloved English band Brighter. From 1989 to 1992, the trio of Alison Cousens, Keris Howard and Alex Sharkey recorded four singles for the renowned Sarah Records imprint (previously collected by Matinée on the ‘Singles’ CD in 2003), and a wealth of other songs collected on this new compilation. “Out To Sea” begins with eight tracks that formed the long out of print and highly sought after “Laurel” mini-album released on Sarah. These eight tracks are archetypal of the Brighter sound - melodic, pastoral pop with carefully strummed guitars, keyboards, and wonderfully introspective, poignant vocals from Keris Howard. Also showcasing Brighter’s ability to pen upbeat, jangly pop hits, “Out To Sea” features five early 4-track recordings originally released on limited edition flexidiscs by the German labels Blam-A-Bit and Sturm und Drang. Perhaps more than later recordings, these fan favorites demonstrate the band’s expertise in layering instruments and voice together to form a melodic wall of sound. Among the album’s six unreleased tracks are four songs from a scrapped debut album recorded in 1990. Other songs from this album were later rerecorded for “Laurel” but these four - “There’s Nothing We Can Do”, “Nothing At All”, “Hope To God” and “Amy Never Knew” - were passed over for newer compositions and remained unreleased until today. Additional unreleased gems “If I Could See” and “Wallflower” were recorded at the same time as “Laurel” but dropped from that release and languished in the vaults. They are among the most immediate songs the band ever wrote and, with this release, are likely to become posthumous Brighter classics more than 15 years after their recording. Tracklist: “Christmas”, “Frostbite”, “Summer Becomes Winter”, “Something To Call My Own”, “Ocean Sky”, “Out To Sea”, “Maybe”, “Journey’s End”, “If I Could See”, “Wallflower”, “Airhead”, “Don’t Remember”, “Next Summer”, “Looks Like Rain”, “Falling”, “There’s Nothing We Can Do?”, “Nothing At All”, “Hope To God”, “Amy Never Knew” and “Still”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| BRILLIANT COLORS |
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| Introducing |
Slumberland
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| Singer/guitarist Jess Scott started Brilliant Colors in early 2007, and she’s been mighty busy since then. After a steady stream of line-up changes, Scott has finally settled on a permanent line-up with the addition of East Coast transplants Diane Anastasio and Michelle Hill (a veteran of a number of Bay Area underground punk outfits, as well as touring guitarist for legendary UK punk / dub group The Slits!), in the meantime sharing bills with fellow Bay Area acts Nodzzz, Grass Widow, and Ty Segall and opening for the likes of The Urinals and The Homosexuals. Following up two sold-out singles (on Make A Mess and Captured Tracks) and mounting fervor from all corners of the pop underground blog-o-world, Brilliant Colors’ debut album drops just in time to secure its place as an undeniable contender for best pop record of 2009. “Introducing”, recorded in Portland, Oregon by Mississippi Records’ Alex Yusimov, marks a great leap forward for Brilliant Colors. The band has honed their songwriting to a fine edge, delivering ten tracks of sharp, subtly catchy indie pop that finds them more assuredly rounding out the corners of their DIY punk-meets-Shop Assistants, ‘78-‘86 pop collision. Opener “I Searched” is a fully formed pop classic that drifts through the speakers on the back a wistful, echoey vocal, while “Absolutely Anything” picks up the pace with a buzzing guitar attack and a chorus hook that would make Joey Ramone proud. The trio is at their best on songs like “Over There” and “Yell In The Air”, tunes that are emblematic of the perfect middle ground that Scott has struck between the crunch and drive of punk and the spiky DIY melodicism of early Rough Trade and Flying Nun bands. “Introducing” is a sharp debut album packed with taut guitar buzz and dreamy melodies, neatly expanding on the promise of those in-demand 7” singles. Clocking in at barely twenty-four minutes, it’s focus and concision is the perfect encapsulation of where we think pop should be in 2009. Side-stepping all of the indie scene pigeonholes, Brilliant Colors have produced a scrappy gem of a record. Tracklist: “I Searched”, “Absolutely Anything”, “English Cities”, “Yell In The Air”, “You Say You Want”, “Over There”, “Mythic”, “Short Sleeves At Night”, “Motherland” and “Should I Tell You”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE |
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| Doubleplusgood |
Matinée
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| “Doubleplusgood” is the excellent debut album from Glasgow’s Bubblegum Lemonade. Twelve tracks filled with that kind of jangly Rickenbacker pop you learned to love while listening to The Byrds, early Primal Scream, The Primitives and Razorcuts. Tracklist: “A Billion Heartbeats”, “Beautiful Friends”, “I'll Never Be Yours”, “Tired Of Sleeping”, “Last Time I Saw Andrew”, “Susan's In The Sky”, “Penny Fountain”, “My Dreams Of You”, “Lost Summer Days”, “Here They Come”, “Tyler” and “Last Weekend”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| BURNING HEARTS |
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| Aboa Sleeping |
Shelflife
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| “Aboa Sleeping” is the excellent debut album by Burning Hearts, the duo of Henry Ojala and Jessika Rapo. Henry and Jessika are so far mostly known from being members in two of the finest pop bands that have ever come out of Finland: Cats On Fire and Le Futur Pompiste. Now you can add Burning Hearts to that collection of lovely bands. The sound of “Aboa Sleeping” is a beautiful and warm meeting of the accoustic and the synthezised, the melodies are all Pop, but with a clear connection to pioneering electronic acts such as Broadcast, Magnetic Fields and Stereolab. With Jessika’s ace vocals floating on top, this album is surely a beautiful little album, ranging from dreamy to euphoric. Tracklist: ”I Lost My Color Vision”, “Iris”, “Various Lives”, “The Galloping Horse”, “We Walked Among the Trees”, “Sea Birds”, “A Peasant’s Dream”, “Close to Her” and “Aboa Sleeping”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| BUTCHER BOY |
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| Profit In Your Poetry |
How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
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| Great debut album by Scottish seven-piece Butcher Boy who makes lovely guitar pop with strings and cello in the vein of early Belle & Sebastian, The Go-Betweens, Tindersticks and The Smiths. Recorded by Geoff Allan at CaVa Sound, Glasgow. Highly recommended! Tracklist: ”Trouble And Desire”, ”There Is No-One Who Can Tell You Where You've Been”, ”Profit In Your Poetry”, ”I Could Be In Love With Anyone”, ”I Lost Myself”, ”Girls Make Me Sick”, ”I Know Who You Could Be”, ”Fun”, ”Keep Your Powder Dry” and ”Days Like These Will Be The Death Of Me”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| BUTCHER BOY |
CD
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| React Or Die |
How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
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| “React Or Die” is the excellent second album from Scottish seven-piece Butcher Boy who makes lovely guitar pop with strings and cello in the vein of early Belle & Sebastian, The Go-Betweens, Tindersticks and The Smiths. This album is, just as the debut, recorded at legendary CaVa Sound in Glasgow. The result is an even richer orchestration and production. Togehter with frontman John Blain Hunt’s excellent songwriting “React Or Die” is just as great as the debut, or maybe even better! Tracklist: “When I’m Asleep”, “Carve A Pattern”, “You’re Only Crying For Yourself”, “Anything Other Than Kind”, “This Kiss Will Marry Us”, “A Better Ghost”, “Clockwork”, “Why I Like Babies”, “Sunday Bells” and “React Or Die”. Highly recommended! |
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| 135 SEK |
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| CALIFORNIA SNOW STORY |
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| Close To The Ocean |
Letterbox
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| California Snow Story are a Scottish-based band, formed in 2002 by David Skirving. David was a founder member of Glasgow band Camera Obscura. He wrote several songs and played lead guitar on their first three releases (“Park and Ride”, “Your Sound” and “Rare UK Bird”). He also wrote guitar parts for the “Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi” album and played several shows with Camera Obscura between 1997 and 1999, including the legendary Bowlie Weekender festival. California Snow Story first released music on the much-loved Shelflife label in 2002 and have had a rather fluid line up. After a lengthy break, David began recording again in 2005 and was joined in 2006 by singer Sandra Belda Martínez. Sandra was previously the vocalist in the highly rated Valencia-based duo Superété. Superété recorded music in Spain in 2001/2002 and played frequently in Valencia and Barcelona in 2003 and 2004. With help from Madoka Fukushima on keyboards and Alan Skirving on drums, California Snow Story have recorded their first full-length release “Close To The Ocean”. Tracklist: “Begin Again”, “My Life Is Only A Daydream”, “Future Perfect”, “Suddenly Everything Happens”, “Consolation Song”, “Brook Lune “, “A New Light To Guide You”, “Wishing Well”, “You Set The Scene” and “Once An Ocean”. |
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| 145 SEK |
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| CARS CAN BE BLUE |
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| Doubly Unbeatable |
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
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| ”Doubly Unbeatable” is the second album from US pop duo Nate Mitchell and Becky Brooks, better known as Cars Can Be Blue. Simple, fun, catchy songs that combine bubblegum pop with a satirical, sometimes even naughty sense of humour. Think Dressy Bessy with Sarah Silverman singing, Tullycraft meets Adam Sandler, Beat Happening meets Tenacious D. Tracklist: “Sun Blows Up”, “Coat Tails”, “Eyeballs”, “Hope You’re Hurting”, “Pretty Special”, “I Wish I”, “Ribbon”, “Flipped Around”, “Cycle Of Violence”, “You’re On Drugs”, “Just Because”, “I Think It’s A...”, “So Cheap”, “Merch Song”, “Bend That Rad” and “Seem’s We’re Breaking Up”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| CARS CAN BE BLUE |
CD
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| All The Stuff We Do |
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
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| US pop duo Nate Mitchell and Becky Brooks, better known as Cars Can Be Blue, plays simple, fun, catchy songs that combine bubblegum pop with a satirical, sometimes even naughty sense of humour. Think Dressy Bessy with Sarah Silverman singing, Tullycraft meets Adam Sandler, Beat Happening meets Tenacious D. Tracklist: “I Like”, “Used To Think”, “Perm Guy”, “Dating Batman”, “Car Is Out”, “Motorboat”, “Hey Hippie”, “TMNT”, “She Needs It”, “Do You Remember?”, “Abortion”, “Retarded Retard”, “Dirty Song”, “(You're A) Bitch”, “Bike Shop”, “You're So Cute”, “The Pincher”, “D In The P”, “Do You Want It? (The SEX, I Mean)” and “Theme”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE CAT´S MIAOW |
CD
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| Songs For Girls To Sing |
Library
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| Excellent compilation of this highly influential Australian indiepop/twee group from the early-mid 90’s. “Songs For Girls To Sing” compiles all of The Cat’s Miaow singles, split singles and compilation tracks. 36 tracks! Tracklist: “Hollow Inside”, “Make A Wish”, “Light The Beacon”, “Not Like I Was Doing Anything”, “Note On The Table”, “Baby I Love You”, “You Know It's True”, “Seventeen”, “What Time Is It There?”, “I Can't Sleep Thinking You Hate Me”, “I Fall To Pieces”, “Let Me Brush The Hair From Your Face”, “Portland, Oregon”, “One Of Us Is In The Wrong Place”, “Stay”, “Smitten”, “Right Back...”, “Do You Think It Will Snow Tonight?”, “The Others Way”, “Shoot The Moon”, “Firefly”, “Barney & Me”, “Millions Of Tiny Lights”, “LA International Airport”, “If Things Had Been Different”, “Crying”, “Don't Worry, This Isn't About You”, “Nothing Can Stop Us”, “Peut-Etre Que Rien Jamais”, “Laisses-Moi Froler Les Cheveux De Ton Visage”, “Revant De Toi”, “Troisieme Etage”, “Nothing Can Stop Us”, “Crying”, “Third Floor Fire Escape View” and “Let It Flow”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| CATS ON FIRE |
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| The Province Complains |
Marsh-Marigold
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| “The Province Complains”, the debut album by Cats On Fire, is here at last! This Finnish quartet may not need an introduction by now, after two 7” singles on Elva and a CDEP on our own humble label the rumour has been spread around the globe: one of the finest contemporary pop bands comes from Finland. This album is yet another proof of their ability to write classic and intelligent guitar pop songs, where influences can be found in the brittish 80’s indie scene, with bands like The Smiths and Felt, as well as in 60’s pop icons The Kinks. Highly recommended! Tracklist: ”I Am The White-Mantled King”, “Astray”, “Higher Grounds”, “Heat And Romance”, “Born Again Christian”, “The Smell Of An Artist”, “Chain Of Saints”, “Mesmer And Reason”, “If You Must Tell Him”, “The Sharp End Of A Season”, “Draw In The Reins” and “End Of Straight Street”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| CATS ON FIRE |
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| Dealing In Antiques |
Johanna Kustannus
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| An excellent 20 track compilation gathering all the songs from Cats On Fire’s two (since long out of print) 7” singles on Elva, the “Draw In The Reins” CDEP on our own Fraction Discs label and “The Hague” from “Matinée Grand Prix”, together with six songs that are previously unreleased (including a cover of White Town’s mega hit “Your Woman”). Anyone who’ve listened and fancied Cats On Fire’s two albums should really give this collection a listen, because this is very much the early history of a Great Pop Band that has hold on to their musical ideas throughout the years - and made fabulous songs from the very start! Tracklist “Your Woman”, “Poor Students Dream Of Marx”, “Never Land Here”, “Crooked Paper Clip”, “Something Happened”, “On His Right Side”, “Don’t Say It Could Be Worse”, “My Friend In A Comfortable Chair”, “You Will Find Me Where You Left Me”, “Solid Work”, “Higher Grounds”, “They Produced A Girl”, “Honey Your Baby”, “The Smell Of An Artist”, “Your Treasure”, “The Cold Hands Of Great Men”, “Draw In The Reins”, “Happiness Is Chemistry”, “Stars” and “The Hague”. Highly recommended! |
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| 135 SEK |
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| CATS ON FIRE |
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| Our Temperance Movement |
Johanna Kustannus
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| “Our Temperance Movement” is the second album from Cats On Fire. And there’s no need talking about the “difficult second album”, because our favourites from Finland have advanced their sound and expression within the regions of what we’re used to hear from them. And why shouldn’t they, because when it comes to jangly guitar pop with smart lyrics, in their game they’re quite unbeatable! Take parts of The Smiths, One Thousand Violins and Happydeadmen, throw in a sparkling Felt guitarist on top, add a warmer, more intimate production and you get the idea... Or maybe like this: Cats On Fire has made another excellent album! How about that!? Tracklist: “Horoscope”, “Lay Down Your Arms”, “Letters From A Voyage To Sweden”, “Never Sell The House”, “The Steady Pace”, “Tears In Your Cup”, “Garden Lights”, “The Borders Of This Land”, “Our Days In The Sun” and “Fabric”. Highly recommended! |
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| 140 SEK |
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| CAUSE CO-MOTION! |
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| It´s Time! |
Slumberland
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| Cause Co-Motion! have spent the last three years releasing a series of increasingly rad singles on What's Yr Rupture?, Cape Shok, Can't Cope and finally Slumberland. Their sound is a blazing chaos of jangle, clatter, and thump - busted strings and broken hearts. Hummable tunes to scratch that TVPs/Pastels/Comet Gain itch, with more than a dash of 14 Iced Bears and Desperate Bicycles in there too. Using reverb as a weapon, Cause Co-Motion! have honed their hyperactive sound into a formidable DIY pop lexicon. Dig their new language. It's Time! is a compilation of these fine singles. The 14 songs race by in barely over 20 minutes, the compressed rush of melody, tunes and crash-bang energy perfectly mirroring the hormonal frenzy of adolescence and young adulthood. Tracklist: “Only Fades Away”, “Baby Don't Do It”, “This Just Won't Last”, “This Time Next Year”, “Take A Look”, “Which Way Is Up?”, “Falling Again”, “Don't You Know?”, “Say What You Feel”, “When Will It Finally End?”, “Who's Gonna Care?”, “I Lie Awake”, “You Don't Say” and “Cry For Attention”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| CELESTIAL |
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| Crystal Heights |
Lavender/Music Is My Girlfriend
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| Finally it’s here - the anticipated second album from Celestial. The album is filled with beautiful pieces of dreamy pop, jangly guitars, ace melodies and vocals from heaven. We believe this release will be loved by those who appreciate the essence of Creation and Sarah Records, Swedish pop, The Field Mice, Ride, Trembling Blue Stars, My Favorite, Language of Flowers and Camera Obscura. The wonderful vocals on the recordings belong to Malin Dahlberg (Douglas Heart, Laurel Music, We Are Soldiers We Have Guns) and Ulrika Nymark (Northern Fields). While first album “Dream On” draw resemblance to C86, JAMC or a sunkissed Ride the new album shows a band changing towards a slightly cleaner soundscape still cherishing their old 7” singles. “You only dream about yesterdays. There and back again, there and back again…”. Tracklist: “Preston Park”, “Warm Against The Cold”, “Forever Whispers Secrets To Me”, “Love Always Comes To Those Who Waits”, “Crystal Heights”, “How Does It Feel?”, “Lonely Boulevard”, “Try To Understand” and “Hope, You Know”. Highly recommended! |
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| 75 SEK |
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| THE CHESTERFIELDS |
CD
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| Electric Guitars In Their Hearts |
Cherry Red
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| The Chesterfields were formed in 1984 in deepest Dorset, UK and signed to Bristol's Subway Organisation label. This 27 track best of compilation is the first to cover the whole of the band’s career. After having 4 Independent chart hit singles, including the highly rated “Ask Johnny Dee”, their debut album “Kettle” was released in 1987 and two more albums, “Westward Ho!” and “Crocodile Tears” followed over the next two years. “Electric Guitars In Their Hearts” also features a previously unreleased version of “Glad For You”, with Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey), Clare Mactaggart (Portishead) and Andy Strickland (The Loft). This compilation is perfect for admirers of English jangly guitar pop from the 80’s! Tracklist: “Shame About The Rain”, “Completely And Utterly”, “Ask Johnny Dee”, “Sweet Revenge”, “Best Of Friends”, “Two Girls And A Treehouse”, “Nose Out Of Joint”, “Love Mountain”, “Oh Mr Wilson”, “What's Your Perversion”, “Pop Anarchy”, “Sob Sob Story”, “Everything A Boy Could Ever Need”, “Goodbye Goodbye”, “Last Train To Yeovil”, “Let It Go”, “Lunchtime For The Wild Youth”, “Alison Wait”, “Blame”, “Male Bimbo”, “Fool Is A Man”, “Down By The Wishing Pool”, “Glad For You”, “Fountain Of Youth”, “Hangover Eve”, “Something Happening” and “The Berlin Walk”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| THE CLEAN |
CD
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| Unknown Country |
Flying Nun
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| The Clean is a highly influental indie band formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978 and was an early part of the Flying Nun stable of acts (along with The Bats, The Chills, Sneaky Feelings and more). Although they released several chart-topping singles in their native country, the Clean are a little-known cult band outside of New Zealand, although their influence is surprisingly far-reaching. They became a staple of college radio in the 1980s, Stephen Malkmus of Pavement cites them as a major influence, and the band’s droney 80’s output is a direct forerunner of bands such as Yo La Tengo and Camper Van Beethoven. “Unknown Country” was released by Flying Nun in 1996. Tracklist: “Wipe Me, I'm Lucky”, “Champagne & Misery”, “Changing Your Head”, “Balkans”, “Clutch”, “Franz Kafka At The Zoo”, “Whisk”, “Indigo Blue”, “Chumpy”, “Get The Liquid”, “Happy Lil’ Fella”, “Tweezer”, “Rope”, “Twist Top”, “Cooking Water”, “Valley Cab”, “Wall Walk” and “Balkans”. |
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| CLUB 8 |
CD
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| Spring Came, Rain Fell |
Labrador
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| ”Spring Came, Rain Fell” is the fourth album by the beloved Swedish pop duo Club 8. With infuences from dub, c86, triphop and bossa nova this is their most diverse album - and at the same time - one of their finest. Sheer pop and melancholia in a beautiful mix! This 2008 reissue CD contains five bonus tracks – all the tracks from the “Summer Songs” CDEP. Tracklist: “We're Simple Minds”, “Spring Came, Rain Fell”, “Spring Song”, “Close To Me”, “Baby, I'm Not Sure If This Is Love”, “The Chance I Deserve”, “I Give Up Too “, “Friends And Lovers”, “Teenage Life”, “Karen Song”, “The Girl With The Northern Soul Collection”, “We Set Ourselves Free”, “Things We Share”, “Mornings”, “You And Me”, “Don't Stop The Night” and “Sounds From The Gulfstream”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| CLUB 8 |
CD
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| The Boy Who Couldn´t Stop Dreaming |
Labrador
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| Club 8 returns in the grandest of ways with their sophomore sixth album. "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming" is pop music at its most profound, balancing perfectly between sunshine and melancholia. Twelve songs that’ll make you sing along about death while dreaming of summer days. A glorious return to say the least! Tracklist: ”Jesus, Walk With Me”, “Whatever You Want”, “Football Kids”, “Hopes And Dreams”, “Everything Goes”, “Heaven”, “When I Come Around”, “Leave The North”, “In The Morning”, “Sometimes”, “Where Birds Dont Fly” and “The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming”. |
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| CLUB 8 |
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| The People´s Record |
Labrador
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| Club 8 has travelled to Brazil for inspiration, bought records made in the 70’s in Western Africa, used a percussion player from Cuba and hooked up with producer Jari Haapalainen (The Concretes, Camera Obscura, Ed Harcourt). The result is unique mix of Swedish pop melodies and African rhythms - undoubtedly one of the most unique, captivating and catchiest pop records of the year! Tracklist: “Western Hospitality”, “Isn’t That Great?”, “Shape Up!”, “Dancing With The Mentally Ill”, “My Pessimistic Heart”, “Back To A”, “Like Me”, “Be Mad, Get Ill, Be Still”, “We’re All Going To Die” and “The People Speak”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| CLUB 8 |
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| Nouvelle |
Siesta
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| Second edition of Club 8’s first album, now including the three tracks from their since long out of print single “Me Too”. “Nouvelle” is a charming debut album that combines jangly pop influences like The Smiths and Felt with a latin breeze. Tracklist: “Blue Skies”, “Don´T Be Gone”, “Breakdown”, “She Never Calls Me”, “Loveaffair”, “Sunday Afternoon”, “Those Charming Men”, “All Dressed Up And Shy”, “I Guess I Was Wrong”, “Look Out! “, “Mee To”, “Girlfriend” and “Before I Came”. |
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| COMET GAIN |
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| Broken Record Prayers |
Milou Studios
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| ”Broken Record Prayers” is the anticipated compilation from the UK pop legends Comet Gain. This CD is a “collection of A & B sides, session tracks and stray dogs recorded 1998-2008” and a perfect introduction to this influential band, who’ve gained so many devoted fans with their soulful pop music with its roots and influences in 60’s soul, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, punk and 80’s guitar pop like TVP’s and Biff Bang Pow!. Tracklist: “Jack Nance Hair”, “You Can Hide Your Love Forever”, “Young Lions”, “If I Had A Soul”, “Brothers Off The Block”, “Beautiful Despair”, “Love Without Lies”, “Hard Times”, “If You Ever Walk Out Of My Life”, “Books Of California”, “Look At You Now (You're Crying)”, “Mainlining Mystery”, “Asleep On The Snow”, “Beatnik”, “He Walked By Nite”, “Orwell Liberty Dance”, “Emotion Pictures”, “Tighten Up!”, “Germ Of Youth Part Ii” and “Record Prayer”. |
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| COMPUTE |
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| This |
Distortion Girl
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| After a string of various EP releases over the last couple of years it’s finally time for the debut album by Ulrika Mild, Göteborg’s queen of synthpop, a k a Compute. Anyone familiar with the synthpop sounds and old skool computer game blips from Compute’s past also knows that her songwriting and sound just keep improving and improving with every new release. With this one Compute is taking another leap, the catchiness of the pop melodies is completed by a darker and more distorted sound, bringing to mind elecronic acts such as Virna Lindt, Broadcast and (later) Action Biker. Still, there’s a distinct core of love for the contagious synth pop melodies of the 80’s. This, of course, means that there’s a lot of need for dancing and banging those drums while enjoying This! Tracklist: ”Reminds Me Of You”, “All The Things I Swore I’d Never Be”, “Rushing, Slowing Down”, “All Walk By”, “A Matter Of Patience”, “Over And Over”, “Words”, “Better Ways” and “The Dream”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| THE CONSULTANTS |
CD
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| Work From Home |
Shelflife
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| Info on this item coming soon. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE CRAYON FIELDS |
CD
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| Animal Bells |
Chapter
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| Animal Bells is an unruffled, dreamy pop masterpiece from this young Melbourne quartet, 12 minor key pop masterpieces filled with soaring harmonies and ringing 12 string guitar. Think the Zombies, Byrds and Beach Boys, but also think the peculiar genius of singer/guitarist Geoff O’Connor who has deft and idiosyncratic touch all his own. Tracklist: “Choir Of Tiny Boys”, “Would It Be So Strange”, “Living So Well”, “Potholes”, “Back, Front, Side, Low, High”, “Composed”, “Helicopters”, “Lovely Time”, “Impossible Things”, “Do It First”, “Midnight” and “Drains”. |
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| 145 SEK |
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| CRYSTAL STILTS |
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| Alight Of Night |
Slumberland
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| Following on from their great EP on Woodsist and a summer of packed shows and increasing anticipation is “Alight Of Night”, an album that more than delivers on the promise of their early singles. So what’s it like, you ask? There is a definite flavour of Velvet Underground to be had, but Crystal Stilts’ spectral avant-garage also takes in such far-flung references as: the spooked 60s Texas psych of 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups Pin Group and Plagal Grind, and a post-punk minimalism that brings to mind early Rough Trade and Factory releases. There is definitely a strong pop element as well, with the buzzsaw bubblegum of early Mary Chain b-sides and Meat Whiplash coming to mind. These are all just rough points of reference, though – “Alight Of Night” is far more than just the sum of the bands influences. From the twang ’n’ echo of “Crystal Stilts” to the primal pop stomp of “Prismatic Room” and the lovely jangle of “Shattered Shine”, the band always adds something extra and unique to the mix, whether it’s a fleeting dash of harmonica, a hypnotic organ line or just an amazing guitar sound. There is a unity of purpose at work here, a special mood conjured by the sounds, production and sequence of songs that lifts this album into the realm of the classics, and reveals new twists and turns on each listen. Like all great albums, every piece just sits in exactly the right place, each song builds on the last and by the end you couldn’t imagine changing anything about it at all. Eerily familiar but totally now, “Alight Of Night” is a brilliantly haunting slice of rock primitivism. Tracklist: “The Dazzled”, ”Crystal Stilts”, ”Graveyard Orbit”, ”Prismatic Room”, ”The Sinking”, ”Departure”, ”Shattered Shine”, ”Verdant Gaze”, ”Bright Night”, ”Spiral Transit” and ”The City In The Sea”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| DEATH BY CHOCOLATE |
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| Death By Chocolate |
Siesta
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| 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)”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| DISLOCATION DANCE |
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| Midnight Shift + Singles |
LTM
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| “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)”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| DISLOCATION DANCE |
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| Music Music Music + Slip That Disc! |
LTM
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| 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”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| DREAMDATE |
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| Patience |
Skywriting
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| ”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! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE DREAMERS |
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| Day For Night |
Friendly Noise
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| 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”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| DUM DUM GIRLS |
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| I Will Be |
Sub Pop
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| “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”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| THE DURUTTI COLUMN |
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| Lips That Would Kiss |
LTM
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| 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”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE DURUTTI COLUMN |
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| Circuses And Bread |
LTM
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| 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”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE ELECTRIC POP GROUP |
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| Seconds |
Matinée
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| ”Seconds”, the second album from Gothenburg jangle pop masters The Electric Pop Group is finally here! This duo of brothers Erik and Martin Aamot, expanding into a live trio together with Jimmi Thunholm (Tellus About The Moon), is once again showing a remarkable development. Their journey from their first self-titled and self-released album in 2006 via “Sunrise EP” in 2008 and the stunning “My Only Inspiration” to this album is the kind of train trip you want to send every new hopeful indiepop band on. Every new release has overtrumped its predecessor – both musically, lyrically and soundwise! And “Seconds” is their flagship - so far! With ten beautiful and brittle gems picking inspiration from the English 80’s and early 90’s (a time when melancholia and brilliant Rickenbackers were the best of friends) this is a perfect pop album for past, present and future fans of Brighter, Razorcuts, Harper Lee, The Sea Urchins, Another Sunny Day and The Field Mice. Tracklist: “Not By Another”, “Out Of Sight”, “I Know I Will”, “Drawing Lines”, “My Only Inspiration”, “In The Back Of My Mind”, “The Way It Used To Do”, “Into Thin Air”, “We Never Made Up Our Minds” and “The Best Of Times”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE ELECTRIC POP GROUP |
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| The Electric Pop Group |
The Electric Pop Group
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| The Electric Pop Group were formed in 2005 by Erik Aamot, Martin Aamot and Linnéa Nilsson and in 2006 Jimmi Thunholm and Gustaf Murman joined the band. This self-titled and self-released album is a fabulous collection of elegantly produced songs for lovers of jangly guitar pop like Razorcuts, The Field Mice, McCarthy and Sambassadeur. Released so late in the year – this gem is a reminder that best of-lists shouldn’t be done earlier than New Years Eve! Highly recommended! Tracklist: “Popgirly”, “Why Can’t You?”, “She’s Playing With Your Heart”, “Don’t Bring Me Out”, “One Of Us”, “Walk Away”, “You Changed My Life”, “Sweeter Than The Rest”, “Turn Me On” and “Alone”. |
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| ELENETTE |
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| Neurosor |
Meta Rekords
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| After a couple of sold out CDR’s on Snow Day and Cosy the time has come for the Stockholm quartet Elenette to release their debut album ”Neurosor”, on their own Meta Rekords. This debut album gathers some of their songs from the CDR’s together with a bunch of new songs. The concept of Elenette is still to make intellectual synthpop music with its roots in the Swedish early 80’s synthpop scene, and Lustans Lakejer in particular. Together with the saxophones and the gifted and humorous lyrics in Swedish, the main part about gender issues, Elenette has created their own brilliant Swedish academic pop style! Tracklist: ”Att Göra En Hit”, “Jag Hatar Män”, “Start; Alla Program; Spel”, “Saga”, “Öppet Brev Till Försvarsmakten”, “Kär (Imaginär) Pensionär”, “Musik Att Älska Till”, “Kärlekskomplexet”, “Ge Mig Nåt Att Skylla På”, “Poäng”, “Pain Au Chocolat” and “Som Smuts Under Naglarna”. |
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| 110 SEK |
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| THE EMBASSY |
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| Tacking |
Service
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| The Embassy is Fredrik Lindson, on vocals and guitars and Torbjörn Håkansson, on programmable rhythm and electricity. Their combination of glittering pop and digital beats has once again on this their second album maintained their position as one of Sweden’s finest pop bands. Tracklist: “Some Indulgence”, ”Time's Tight”, ”Stage Persona”, ”It Pays To Belong”, ”Lurking (with a distance)”, ”Information”, ”Paint“, ”Tell Me“ and ”Was That All It Was“. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| EUX AUTRES |
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| Cold City |
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
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| Eux Autres, a Portland-based duo, plays pop music. The band consists of brother and sister Heather and Nicholas Larimer. Heather plays drums, Nicholas plays guitar, and they both sing. Practices frequently devolve into shoving matches. Eux Autres write compact songs with sparse instrumentation. Their music has been unfairly described as “fun.” But while the surface of the songs might seem nonchalant, the lyrics offer skewed observations and fierce barbs. Most of their songs are about a) military history b) being "done wrong" or c) sports. Sadly, Eux Autres are the only people who notice this. The band sounds like the unrequited love song Doug Martsch would have penned for Francoise Hardy, had the time/space continuum conveniently collapsed. This lovely album, released in 2007, is the band’s second album, their first album “Hell Is Eux Autres” was self-released in 2004 and re-released in 2006 by Grenadine. Tracklist: “The Deadball Era”, ”Molly”, ”Gratte-Ciel”, ”When I'm Up”, ”Anne Boleyn”, ”The Town That Never Was”, ”The City All To Himself”, ”Graceful Exit”, ”Collision Theory” and ”Park Bench Vacation”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE FAINTEST IDEAS |
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| What Goes Up Must Calm Down |
Magic Marker
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| The Faintest Ideas started out as Javelins in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2003 and have released a bunch of EP’s on their own Yellow Mica label. Their uptempo noisepop in the same vein as The Wedding Present, Boyracer and Henry’s Dress has given them fans all over the globe, and this debut album is released on the fine US label Magic Marker (who’ve released Tullycraft, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Kissing Book among others). Tracklist: You're Beautiful”, “Dear Leibniz”, “Capital Between Brackets”, “All Stars”, “Dexter's Got A Sinister Heart”, “Missed Misses”, “Everything Is Black”, “Gun Totin' Hooligans”, “Nosebleeders On The Track”, “Try Too Hard”, “I Hear It But I Don't Like It”, “Mountain Of Tics”, “Nothing Will Ever Happen”, “Decapitated”, “Lose The Downside”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| FELT |
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| Poem Of The River |
Cherry Red
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| Felt’s seventh studio album was originally released in 1987 on Creation records and enjoyed great indie chart success reaching number 6 and remaining in the indie charts for 2 months! This is another release in the continuation of our Felt re-issues and is a must for Felt collectors! Tracklist: “Declaration”, “Silver Plane”, “She Lives By The Castle”, “Stained Glass Windows In The Sky”, “Riding On The Equator” and “Dark Red Birds”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| FELT |
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| The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories |
Cherry Red
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| “It was the first time we merged pop songs with the long descriptive songs”, describes Felt frontman Lawrence. Felt’s third studio album “The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories”, originally released in 1984, is released in a digipack. The album was a critical and indie chart success and has been long sought after in it’s original format, it includes the indie chart hit “Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow”. Tracklist: “Roman Litter”, “Semiteernal Darkness”, “Spanish House”, “Imprint”, “Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow”, “Vasca Da Gama”, “Dismantled King Is Off The Throne”, “Crystal Ball” amd “Whirlpool Vision Of Shame”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| FELT |
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| Forever Breathes The Lonely Word |
Cherry Red
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| “First album that features the unique keyboard skills of Martin Duffy (Primal Scream)” – Lawrence, July 2003. We now move onto the Creation years in our felt campaign. Felt’s sixth studio album was originally released in 1986 and was in the indie charts for many months. This album has been unavailable for many years and is much in demand. All the felt re-issues are proving to be really popular with their loyal fans - not to mention gaining them a few more!! Forever Breathes The Lonely Word”, “Rain Of Crystal Spires”, “Down But Not Yet Out”, “Grey Streets”, “All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead”, “Gather Up Your Wings And Fly”, “A Wave Crashed On Rocks” and “Hours Of Darkness Have Changed My Mind”. Highly recommended! |
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| FIGURINE |
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| Transportation + Communication = Love |
Blackbean & Placenta
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| Reissue of Figurine’s classic first CD “Transportation + Communication = Love”. This new edition includes two songs originally only found on their Motorway 7”, released in Japan. Intelligent and blissful electropop featuring members of Postal Service, Strictly Ballroom and Dntel. Tracklist: "I Wait for You (By the Telephone)", "F>I>G>U>R>I>N>E”, "New Mate”, "Electronic Address”, "S.O.S.”, "Batteries (Can't Help Me Now)”, "Robots”, "My First UFO”, "European Beauty”, "Tired Eyes”, "Digits”, "Eurodiscoteque”, "New Millenium Song”, "International Space Station”, "Secret Track”, "You”, "Zero Degrees” and "Our Song". |
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| 140 SEK |
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| FIREFLIES |
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| Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon |
Lavender/Music Is My Girlfriend
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| “Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon” is the longed-for debut album by Fireflies. Lisle Mitnik, who’s the one and only member of Fireflies, describes the music as “he’s trying to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while”. And this is really that kind of music, the musical cup of tea for darkening evenings, for the imaginary snow-covered streets where The Cat’s Miaow, The Field Mice and Harper Lee left their fooprints. Tracklist: “I Was A Brontosaurus”, “We Heard The Fireworks”, “The Pull”, “Summer Has Gone”, “X-Mas Song”, “Kaleidoscope Eyes”, “The Dunes”, “Comme Il Vous Plaira”, “The Sky Turns To Black”, “Flowers” and “Strawberries”. Highly recommended! |
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| FITNESS FOREVER |
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| Personal Train |
Elefant
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| Fitness Forever is a surprising Italian quartet that is making its full-length debut with “Personal Train”, a marvelous pop album that draws together an immense quantity of influences with marvelous taste, the work of musicians who have an extraordinary ability with the fibers of the most precious and elegant pop: from modern points of reference like La Casa Azul (Guille is one of their most unconditional fans), Cinerama, The High Llamas, Richard Hawley, Belle & Sebastian, The Polyphonic Spree or even Le Mans, to other classics like Bacharach, Michel Legrand, The Beach Boys, The Cowsills, The Free Design or Gladys Knight, and last but not least, the Italians: Rita Pavone, Ennio Morricone, Nico Fidenco, Gino Paoli, Piero Umiliani or Mina. All of this comes together in a huge album whose composition (in the style of the songwriters of the sixties, after hours in the studio) kept them locked in the studio for more than a year putting it all together, achieving an album that is full of life, full of grand pop melodies and marvelous arrangements with the utmost care in every detail. It’s one of those albums that each time you listen you discover new shades and sounds, and that introduces us to Carlos Valderrama – a name that we will probably be hearing a lot in the coming years – who is capable of bringing together classic sounds with vision. And as you know, exercise: it’s highly recommendable for the pop spirits. Here you have your personal trainers. Tracklist: ”Intro”, “Probabilmente”, “L’Anarchica Pugliese”, “Vacanze A Settembre”, “Albertone”, “Se Come Te”, “Je Je Jeox”, “Quando Ho Tempo”, “Monica”, “Bacharach”, “Outro” and “D’Estate”. |
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| THE FLATMATES |
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| Love And Death |
Clairecords
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| This reissue of the long-out-of-print “Love And Death” compilation (originally released on Subway back in 1989) is certainly a good deed by Clairecords. The Flatmates made short and catchy punkpopsongs with inspiration from The Ramones, The Ronettes and Shangri-La’s as well as the contemporary C86 scene. |
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| 130 SEK |
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| FLORIAN |
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| Florianópolis |
Dashboard
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| The debut full length album by Stockholm ninepiece Florian, following their since long out of print single on Fabulous Friends. Beautifully orchestrated and fragile pop with strings and horns. 9 tracks. |
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| FOSCA |
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| The Painted Side Of The Rocket |
But Is It Art?
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| “The Painted Side Of The Rocket” is the third album from Fosca, and their first release since 2002. This album is also Foscs’s first release on Swedish label But Is It Art, who’ve released the lovely duo Friday Bridge. Ten tracks of great Pop that merge indiepop, 80’s pop and disco with Edwards’ storytelling, literary and humorous lyrics. Tracklist: “I’ve Agreed To Something I Shouldn’t Have”, ”It Only Matters To Those To Whom It Matters”, ”Head Boy”, ”We See The World As Our Stunt Doubles”, ”Kim”, ”In-Joke For One”, ”Don’t Be A DJ”, ”Confused And Proud”, ”Evening Dress At 3pm” and ”Come Down From The Cross (Someone Else Needs The Wood)”. |
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| 110 SEK |
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| THE FRENCHMEN |
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| Sorry We Ruined Your Party |
Clairecords
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| Debut album by The Frenchmen from Sacramento, California. For fans of C86 punkpop like Talulah Gosh, The Flatmates and Free Loan Investments. Includes a cover of The Flatmates “Tell Me Why”. 12 tracks. |
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| 130 SEK |
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| FRIDAY BRIDGE |
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| Bite My Tongue |
But Is It Art?
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| Swedish electro pop group Friday Bridge started their work on “Bite My Tongue” a late night in spring at the Hotel am Holstenwall in Hamburg. In front of them for inspiration: an issue of Financial Times and Heat Magazine. When asked to describe the album, the band call it “beautiful and a little troubling, crazy and infectiously poppy at the same time”. It seems like a proper statement for a band that has been compared to acts as diverse as Kylie, Kate Bush – and “Cut Copy sung by Lykke Li”. The production of Bite My Tongue incorporates everything from anvils and studio door handles to Sturm und Drang strings. Very modern, and very original pop music.Like the debut, “Bite My Tongue” embodies headstrong lyrics that treat as different topics as spiritualism (“Horror of Horrors”) and skyscrapers (“There’s No Doubt [You’d Get Killed]”). The Financial Times inspiration shines through in “How To Spend It”, a title that in these times of financial crisis has come to sound cheerfully provocative. Friday Bridge is Ylva Lindberg and Niklas Gustafsson. Bite My Tongue is their second album, after the critical acclaimed and Swedish National Radio Award nominee “Intricacy” (2007). Tracklist: “How To Spend It”, “Horror Of Horrors”, “Shanghai Shipping”, “This Case Is Closed”, “Shock Value”, “Tourner La Page”, “Cats And Dogs”, “Krautrock”, “Partners In Crime”, “The Centre Of Attention”, “There’s No Doubt (You’d Get Killed)”, “Once You’ve Said Goodbye” and “Bridgend”. |
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| 110 SEK |
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| FRIDAY BRIDGE |
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| Intricacy |
But Is It Art?
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| “Intricacy” is the eagerly awaited debut album from Ylva Lindberg, better known as Friday Bridge. Ylva has together with Niklas Gustafsson from This Year’s Model produced a lovely sound where electronica meets the sound of elegant pop architects such as Louis Philippe and Human League. Intricacy features 13 songs, including the hit song “It Song” and a special guest appearance from Dickon Edwards (Fosca) on “Pigeon”. A great debut album with its own trademarked sound - full of dreamy and beautiful, sophisticated but yet cynical songs. Tracklist: “Prologue”, “Armance L'Actrice “, “Literature “, “Love and Nostalgia”, “The 21st Century “, “Edward VII “, “Le Satin S'Empare De La Mode”, “The End Of The Affair “, “A Testimony”, “Pigeon”, “It Girl”, “A Comedy” and “Good Night, Waterhouse”. |
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| 110 SEK |
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| THE GAZETTEERS |
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| We Are Here |
Jigsaw
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| “We Are Here” is the excellent second album from US indiepop band The Gazetteers, fronted by Frank Boscoe of Wimp Factor 14 and Vehicle Flips fame. Lovely bouncy guitar pop in the veins of Tullycraft and Jonathan Richman, with charming and clever lyrics, mostly on the subject of music. Tracklist: “Perennial Fringe Candidate”, “Monkees ‘67”, “Trapped Inside A Skill Crane”, “(I Want To Be A) One Hit Wonder”, “Contretemps”, “More People Should Resign”, “K.I.S.S.”, “The Family Reunion”, “Song For Len Righi” and “Dispatch From The Fair And Festival Circuit”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| GIGI |
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| Maintenant |
Tomlab
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| Gigi is the recording project of Vancouver-based songwriter Nick Krgovich and producer/engineer Colin Stewart. In addition to Stewart’s engineering and production credits on albums by Black Mountain, Cave Singers and Destroyer, as well as, Krgovich’s other groups No Kids and P:ano, Gigi has given the pair an opportunity to unabashedly profess their love of pop music in the most direct way conceivable, and this could not have been accomplished without the talents of the many players and singers that graciously helped out along the way. With singing contributions from artists such as Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy, Mirah, Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls, Katie Eastburn of Young People, Rose Melberg and Karl Blau, the character studies in the songs are voiced from wildly distinct positions giving the narratives of lovesick loneliness, solitary walks around the neighbourhood at twilight, and Friday nights at home with parents watching television in the front room, just that much more poignancy. In the end, what began as a humble experiment four years ago has ballooned into a pop extravaganza that will sit just as comfortably next to your “Back To Mono” box set as it will your rotary phone, waiting to ring. Capturing the spirit of the pop music that flooded the hit parade in the early 60’s is a tall order, and the songs on “Maintenant” decidedly develop a world and language of its own. With a reverent eye on the past and a deep respect for the airtight songsmithery of artists like Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Shadow Morton (among countless others), the songs aren’t content to be throwback-y pastiches or polka-dotted retro workouts but rather stand as attempts at working within a specific and incredibly rich tradition of pop music production. Tracklist: “No, My Heart Will Go On” (Chorus), “The Hundredth Time” (Duffy Driediger & Ryan Peters), “Dreams Of Romance” (Zac Pennington), “Alone At The Pier” (Rose Melberg), “One Woman Show” (Joey Cook), “I’m Not Coming Out Tonight” (Sydney Vermon & Marissa Johnson), “Some Second Best” (Chorus), “I Can’t Bring Myself To Smile” (Bobby Birdman & Katy Davidson), “The Old Graveyard” (Karl Blau), “The Marquee” (Katie Eastburn), “Impossible Love” (Chorus), “Everyone Can Tell” (Ryan Beattie), “Someone Tell Me Please” (Mirah), “I’ll Quit Calypso” (Owen Pallett) and “Neathe The Streetlights” (Nick Krgovich). Highly recommended! |
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| 140 SEK |
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| GIRLS AT OUR BEST! |
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| Pleasure |
Cherry Red
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| Girls At Our Best were one of the finest, most life-affirming of a new breed of independent bands who cropped up at the turn of the 80s – long-standing fan John Peel once referred to them as one of the few groups that made the period bearable. Formed in Leeds from the ashes of legendary original punk band SOS, the group were fronted by distinctive female vocalist Jude ‘Jo’ Evans, forming a songwriting team with guitarist James Alan and bass player Gerard Swift after they met at art college. All four of their singles for their own Record Records, Rough Trade and Happy Birthday Records are included here as bonus tracks – including the wonderful “Getting Nowhere Fast” (later covered by The Wedding Present), its coruscating b-side “Warm Girls”, “Politics!”, “Go For Gold” and “Fast Boyfriends”. Also included is a previously unreleased session for BBC DJ Richard Skinner. As a final bonus, there’s also a completely unheard, virgin demo from the band’s very final recording session. All tracks have been digitally re-mastered from source tapes where possible. Tracklist: “Getting Nowhere Fast”, “Warm Girls”, “Politics!”, “It’s Fashion”, “Go For Gold”, “Pleasure”, “Too Big For Your Boots”, “I’m Beautiful Now”, “Waterbed Babies”, “Fun-City Teenagers”, “£600,000”, “Heaven”, “China Blue”, “Fast Boyfriends”, “She Flipped”, “Goodbye To That Jazz” “This Train”, “Fast Boyfriend” (BBC Session), “£600,000” (BBC Session), “I’m Beautiful Now”(BBC Session), “Pleasure” (BBC Session) and “Boys At Their Best!” (demo). Highly recommended! |
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| 135 SEK |
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| THE GO-BETWEENS |
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| Bright Yellow Bright Orange |
Clearspot
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| “Bright Yellow Bright Orange”, released in 2003, is the second album Australian pop legends The Go-Betweens released after their long break during the 90’s. As always, this album is filled with gorgeous songs penned by Robert Forster and Grant McLennan (RIP) – responsible for so many brilliant songs you really don’t know where to start! Tracklist: “Caroline And I”, “Poison In The Walls”, “Mrs Morgan”, “In Her Diary”, “Too Much Of One Thing”, “Crooked Lines”, “Old Mexico”, “Make Her Day”, “Something For Myself” and “Unfinished Business”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| GOBLIN UNIVERSE |
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| True To Nothing |
Jigsaw
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| Goblin Universe released a pair of great records during their brief lifetime in 2000/2001: a rare self-released CDR and a 7” co-released between their own Grande Barbe label and the Rocket Number Nine label. This disc collects both of those, and adds an extra compilation track and two previously unreleased ones, as well! Recommended for fans of the lackadaisical days of Pavement and the sheer noise/fuzz of Tall Dwarfs. Note: you may recognize Sam from his solo band, The State Of Samuel... Tracklist: “No Love”, “Comet”, “Wet Lips”, “Here Comes Gnome”, “Making Waves”, “Saving The Paste”, “Hands”, “Doing Time”, “Sing For The Soul”, “Don’t Carry On”, “For The Dinosaur Bones”, “Hallelujah!”, “Chinese/Midgets” and “True To Nothing”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| THE GRADE GRUBBERS |
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| Let´s Kiss To Make It Real |
Yellow Mica
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| “Let’s Kiss To Make It Real” is the debut CDR album by US guitar pop quartet The Grade Grubbers. 10 tracks of fine, cheerful and melodious indie/tweepop with boy/girl vocals for fans of The Smittens, The Haircuts and The Snow Fairies. Features a cover of The Parcels’ “Jessica Pancakes”. Tracklist: “Candy Land”, “Down With Mo”, “Jessica Pancakes”, “Leaf Pile”, “Wiggling Worm”, “Kelsi Page”, “Yard Sale”, “Shirtless Midnight Snack”, “Snowman” and “Brain Freeze”. |
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| 40 SEK |
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| ERIK HALLDÉN |
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| Memories, Oh, The Memories |
Cosy
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| “Memories, Oh, The Memories” is the first release in a couple of years from Swedish singer/songwriter Erik Halldén. And this CDR album is worth the wait because it’s quite a transformation compared to his earlier works, these eight tracks are filled with excellent and soulful melodies garnished with a rich, playful and dynamic sound. Fans of Jonathan Richman, The Jazz Butcher and Jens Lekman should check out this young Mr Halldén! Tracklist: “Self-Portrait At 23”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “The Sun Sets Over Liljeholmen”, “Of Course You’re Right”, “If I Ever Get Married”, “Memories, Oh, The Memories”, “There’s Always Someone’s Birthday” and “Saltsjö-Duvnäs”. |
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| 60 SEK |
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| THE HAPPY COUPLE |
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| Happy Times & Petty Crimes |
Quince
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| This compilation CD gathers all of the tracks from the three singles that German male/female duo The Happy Couple have released on Matinée and their own Félicité label. A fine collection of lovely arranged songs inspired by 60’s sunshine pop and 80’s indiepop acts such as Another Sunny Day, The Field Mice, Shop Assistants and Marine Girls. Includes a cover of Television Personalities “The Dream Inspires”, previously released on the “If I Could Write Poetry” compilation. Tracklist: “Song For The Troubadour”, “Another Sunny Day”, “French Cinema Summer Love”, “Hopeless Case”, “The Pop Kid”, “Treason”, “Boyfriend Of The Week”, “The Dream Inspires”, “Don’t Call It”, “All The Time”, “Song For The Troubadour” (Erobique’s Disco Mix) and “Song For The Troubadour” (Stansted Version). |
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| 140 SEK |
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| HARPER LEE |
CD
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| All Things Can Be Mended |
Matinée
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| Fabulous third album by English duo Harper Lee, consisting of Keris Howard (formerly in Brighter and Hal) and Laura Bridge. Beautifully layered guitars and keyboards, songs of melancholia and some upbeat poppier songs too. Anyone who’ve listened to and enjoyed Howard’s Brighter songs will certainly not be dissapointed with “All Things Can Be Mended”. Classic stuff! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| HARPER LEE |
CD
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| Go Back To Bed |
Matinée
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| Harper Lee’s should-be-classic “Go Back To Bed” is finally reprinted by Matinée! Unquestionably brilliant debut album from Brighton, England duo featuring Keris Howard (Brighter, Hal, Trembling Blue Stars) on vocals and guitar, and Laura Bridge (Hood, Kicker) on guitar, keyboards, and drums. Building on the strength of highly praised singles "Dry Land" and "Bug" and a bit of exposure from the John Peel show, Harper Lee present ten soon-to-be-classic tracks of melancholy pop with beautifully layered keyboards and guitars plus heartbreakingly earnest lyrics. Highly recommended! Tracklist: “Seem So Right”, “Doing Nothing”, “Dry Land”, “Only Connect”, “Deep Dark Ocean”, “Brooklyn Bridge”, “Bug”, “Clifton Street Passage”, “Your Life” and “Low”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE HERMIT CRABS |
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| Saw You Dancing |
Matinée
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| Highly anticipated debut album from celebrated new Glasgow band The Hermit Crabs! The band's “Feel Good Factor” EP turned lots of heads upon its release early this year, with Tangents calling it “sweet succinct pop that snaps and crackles in all the right places”, Aversion.com describing it as “a dose of California sunshine filtered through Scottish bedroom-pop sensibilities”, and All Music Guide heralding it as “classic Scottish indie pop”. Following release of the EP, the band expanded to a five-piece with the addition of a full time violinist and percussionist and focused on live performances before completing the recordings for this magnificent debut album. Rich with instrumentation and recorded with notable guest musicians including members of Teenage Fanclub and Camera Obscura, “Saw You Dancing” is one of those classic debut albums that impresses right from the start. A remarkable debut album from new Scottish pop favorites, ”Saw You Dancing” is another dazzling success for Matinée! Tracklist: “Tonight”, “Goodbye My Friend”, “Closet Fan”, “Lean Free Summer”, “Bad Timing”, “Friends Folk Festival”, “Secrets And Lies”, “Feel Good Factor”, “Third Time Lucky” and “Soulmate”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE HONEYDRIPS |
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| Here Comes The Future |
Sincerely Yours
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| The Honeydrips (Mikael Carlsson of Dorotea fame) debut album is finally here, after releasing a bunch of CDR’s, a 7” single and some mp3 only’s. A lovely blend of jangly guitar pop à la Felt, dancey pop à la Saint Etienne and 60’s pop arrangements – with an emphasis on Mikael Carlsson’s beautiful voice and talent for writing romantic pop songs makes this to a very fine debut. With guest appearances from Sarah Nyberg Pergament (Action Biker, The Dreamers), Patrik Lindgren (Hormones In Abundance, Ring Snuten!) and Hanna Fahl (Kissing Mirrors). Tracklist: “The Strangest Dream (Pt 1 & 2)”, “Trying Something New”, “Fall From A Height”, “(Lack Of) Love Will Tear Us Apart”, “I Wouldn't Know What To Do”, “Wait For The Grief To Come”, “The Walk”, “Here Comes The Future”, “It Was A Sunny Summer Day” and “In Some Distant Future”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| HUNKY DORY |
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| Over The Rainbow |
Siesta
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| Hunky Dory were an authentic children’s group from Lewes, England that were signed to Él records in 1988 and seen by founder Mike Alway as the logical next step after Bad Dream Fancy Dress and Would-Be-Goods. Unfortunately this coincided with Cherry Red’s decision to put an end to the Él label, and the album wasn’t released until 2002. This is pure Pop melodies with lovely vocal arrangements. Together with a charm and naivety that brings sunshine pop family group The Cowsills to mind, this is indeed another Él classic! Tracklist: “On The Loose”, “Over The Rainbow”, “It's Love”, “We're Through”, “Another Christmas Day”, “Noisy Fun Famous”, “I Don't Believe It”, “Russians”, “We've Got Each Other”, “Gabriel The Angel”, “Dreamland Express”, “Can't You See” and “Tomorrow”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| HYDROPLANE |
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| Hope Against Hope |
Drive-In/Bad Jazz
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| “Hope Against Hope” is the second album from Australian ambient/guitar pop crossover band Hydroplane, sharing members with The Cat’s Miaow. A beautifully athmospheric album, that brings to mind a dreamier The Cat’s Miaow. Released in 1999Tracklist: “Stars”, “Grand Central”, “Summer Without Sun”, "How Can You Tell Me”, “With Someone Like You”, “Station To Station”, “Don’t Know You”, “Follow”, “Too Far Out” and “Something I’ve Got To Tell You”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| IVY |
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| Realistic |
Seed
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| Produced by ‘90s orchestral-pop mainstay Kurt Ralske, formerly of Ultra Vivid Scene, the debut album from New York pop sophisticates Ivy combines the Gallic cool of French-born chanteuse Dominique Durand with the varied melodic smarts of Andy Chase and Adam Schlesinger (the latter split his time between this trio and his own band, Fountains of Wayne). Mixing echoes of ‘60s French pop singers like Francoise Hardy with a light bossa nova influence and strong influences from mid-‘80s UK guitar pop bands of the Prefab Sprout/Lloyd Cole/The Smiths variety, “Realistic” is far more than the sum of its influences. Tracklist: “Get Enough”, “No Guarantee”, “Decay”, “15 Seconds”, “Everyday”, “Point Of View”, “Don’t Believe A Word”, “Beautiful”, “Shallow”, “In The Shadows”, “Dying Star” and “Over”. |
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| 110 SEK |
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| THE JUNE BRIDES |
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| Every Conversation |
Cherry Red
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| The June Brides were from South London and had considerable success in the Independent Charts in the mid 1980's. The band was built around lyricist, guitarist and vocalist Phil Wilson. They were unusual at the time as although they operated in the independent sector they had a brass section. Their album, “There Are Eight Million Stories” was No 1 for four weeks in the Independent Chart in September 1985 and stayed in that chart for a total of 38 weeks. This is a double album which contains all The June Brides tracks ever recorded including the BBC Radio 1 sessions with John Peel and Janice Long, plus the solo work from Phil Wilson which followed the break up of the band. This definitive double album 41 track package includes very detailed sleevenotes (6 000 words), rare pictures and complete discography. Tracklist: “In The Rain”, ”Every Conversation”, ”The Instrumental”, ”I Fall”, ”Sunday To Saturday”, ”Sick Tired And Drunk”, ”Disneyland”, ”Comfort”, ”Heard You Whisper”, ”Enemies”, ”No Place Called Home”, ”Josel's Gone”, ”This Town”, ”On The Rocks”, ”We Belong”, ”Just The Same”, ”Waiting For A Change”, ”The Written Word”, ”Even Now”, ”Better Days”, ”A Jingle”, ”10 Miles”, ”In The Rain (Long Session)”, ”I Fall (Long Session)”, ”On The Rocks (Long Session)”, ”No Place Called Home (Long Session)”, ”Just The Same (Unreleased Version)”, ”Cold”, ”One Day (Peel Session)”, ”We Belong (Peel Session)”, ”Waiting For A Change (Peel Session)”, ”This Town (Peel Session)”, ”Pound For Pound (Live)”, ”Joy Will Find You Out (Long Session)”, ”A Cowboy's Lament”, ”Even Now (Long Session)”, ”Jackson”, ”Love In Vain”, ”10 Miles (Long Session)”, ”Small Town (Long Session)” And “After Hours”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| KATSEN |
CD
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| It Hertz! |
Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation
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| Katsen are the electronic pop duo of Chris Blackburn & Donna Grimaldi. Donna and Chris became friends in 2001 while selling clothes at a craft market in Brighton. Donna’s brilliant mixtapes, with their bold collage covers, caught Chris’ attention and fired his imagination. For for the first time, after playing two-fingered synth in various bands, he’d met someone with the tastes and talents to compliment his own. Chris: “We’d get together to listen to records and, after exhausting Donna’s extensive and very cool collection, we’d get out my synths and toy keyboards and create our own sound long into the happy night.” Interrupted only by Donna running away one summer to join the circus, and Chris teaching acting to ballet dancers, Katsen songs began to form, taking cues from 50s chic, 70s krautrock and the sharper edges of 80s pop. Following on from cameo appearances in compilations such as “Bot POP” (Happy Robots) and “Electronically Yours Vol.1” (Undo/ EMI), “It Hertz!” is the full-length offspring of Katsen’s eight-year partnership; the love of the square wave and all things Casio. Tracklist: “Let’s Build A City”, “Chequered Flag”, “Cactus”, “I’m A Doctor”, “Island In An Island”, “What You Want”, “Drax”, “German Film Star”, “It Hertz!”, “Constellation”, “Where Nobody Can Find Us” and “Florian”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| KAWAII |
CD
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| If It Shines, We Have It |
Shelflife
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| “Mats Jorgensen and Hedda Fredly jigsawed these sounds together in their kitchen” says the liner notes to the Norwegian duo Kawaii's debut album. And it’s a truly nice puzzle of pop sensibility, synth pop, electro beats and jazzy guitar pop. Elements that will appeal to fans of Pipas, Figurine or The Postal Service, but there are also enough elements of originality in these 13 tracks to form a fanbase of their own; bossanova tunes, toy keyboards, xylophones, vocal harmonies, video game noises and elegantly weird but beautiful melodies. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE KID |
CD
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| La Société Nouvelle |
Hybris
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| Info on this item coming soon. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS |
CD
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| Songs About You |
Shelflife
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| Debut album from Belfast band Language Of Flowers. For fans of classic indiepop like Heavenly and The Primitives. Tracklist: “Where You Belong”, ”If It's Not You”, ”Songs About You”, ”Leaving”, ”Who You're With”, ”She's Gone Away”, ”Summer's Been And Gone”, ”Botantic Gardens”, ”I Don't Care At All”, ”Tara Mascara” and ”Christmas”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE LEGENDARY JIM RUIZ GROUP |
CD
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| Sniff |
Siesta
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| The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group’s second album “Sniff”, released in 1998, is a unique and lovely produced album. Songwriter Jim Ruiz has brought a joyful, stylish and intimate sounding mix of pop, jazzy tunes, bossa nova, disco, latin rhythms and 60’s pop. This loungy piece of pop perfection took three years in the making and were made with a lot of guest musicians, including The Shoestrings and Katerine. For fans of 60’s soft pop, Louis Philippe, Jonathan Richman and Eggstone. Tracklist: “Last Time”, “Last Summer”, “Bigfoot”, “Baby Where Art Thou?”, “Until I Met You”, “Katerine”, “Uncle Wieney”, “Goodbye To All That”, “Without You, Gurl”, “My Foolish Heart”, “Bigfoot (I Remember Wes)”, “Sound Of Music”, “Bobby Stinson´S Guitar” and “Something Strange Happens”. Highly recommended! |
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| 140 SEK |
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| LIECHTENSTEIN |
CD
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| Survival Strategies In A Modern World |
Fraction Discs
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| Liechtenstein is about to become the band that every indie kid’s younger sister wishes she had started. Making a splash on the international indie pop scene with two attentiongrabbing singles, 2007’s “Stalking Skills” and last year’s “Apathy”, the Swedish trio of Renée, Naemi, and Elin will make waves with their unique take on the girl-group post-punk sound of early ’80s groups like The Au Pairs and Kleenex. Fraction Discs is thrilled to team up with the excellent US label, Slumberland, to bring their subversive pop to a larger audience in the form of their new mini-LP, “Survival Strategies In A Modern World”. With the nine-song “Survival Strategies In A Modern World”, Liechtenstein not only delivers the spooky harmonies and loping basslines that earned their singles such critical attention, but they also stretch out into realms only hinted at before. The band not only gives Love Is All a run for their money in the Swedish post-punk revival department, but they can also fit right in alongside Slumberland labelmates The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (not to mention “lost” bands of the C-86 era like Swiss buzzsaw-pop girl-group Chin Chin) in delivering manic pop thrills. Clocking in alongside the post-punk flavour of lead track “All At Once” and “White Dress”, for example, comes the bubblegum sugar rush of “Roses In The Park.” Liechtenstein also has more than angular post-punk tricks up their sleeve; they channel the naïve-yet-proper Oxford charm of Talulah Gosh or The Carousel on songs like “Postcard” and “The End”. Mixing its ’80s influences with a very fresh and contemporary enthusiasm, “Survival Strategies In A Modern World” packs so much excitement into less than 23 minutes that you will discover a new favorite song with every spin. At least, that is, until your sister sneaks into your room, snatches it (along with your Vivian Girls records and rare Mo-Dettes singles), and takes her own shot at indie stardom. Better buy two.. Tracklist: “All At Once”, “Postcard”, “Sophistication”, “By Staying Here (We Will Slowly Disappear)”, “Wallpaper Stripes”, “Roses In The Park”, “Reflections”, “White Dress” and “The End”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| VIRNA LINDT |
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| Shiver |
LTM
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| The sublime debut album by mysterious Swedish elegant Virna Lindt, originally released in 1983 by The Compact Organization. Co-written and produced by Tot Taylor and featuring the classic singles “Attention Stockholm” and “I Experienced Love”, as well as the spine-tingling title track. Literate, sophisticated European pop music with a seductive sixties spy thriller vibe. Think Michael Caine and Hildegard Knef sipping dry martinis chez Birkin and Barry. Bonus cover version “The Windmills Of Your Mind” is taken from the Crepuscule compilation album “Moving Soundtracks”. All tracks digitally remastered in 1997. Tracklist: “Attention Stockholm”, “Shiver”, “Pillow Talk”, “Swedish Modern”, “I Beat The System”, “The Dossier On Virna Lindt”, “Episode One”, “Intelligence”, “Underwater Boy”, “Letter To Sergei”, “The Windmills Of Your Mind”, “Groom” and “I Experienced Love”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE LODGER |
CD
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| Life Is Sweet |
Slumberland
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| Amazing second album from this very special Leeds group. Classic UK guitar pop in the Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Go-Betweens tradition. Featuring "The Good Old Days" and "The Conversation". Tracklist: “My Finest Hour”, ”The Good Old Days”, ”Falling Down”, ”Honey”, ”The Conversation”, ”A Hero's Welcome”, ”A Year Since Last Summer”, ”An Unwelcome Guest”, ”Running Low”, ”Nothing Left (To Say)” and “Famous Last Words”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| LOVE DANCE |
CD
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| Result |
Marsh-Marigold
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| After the brilliant debut EP “You Should Know Where I´m Standing” the waiting has been long for new songs from this gorgeous and jangly guitar pop band from Bergen, Norway. This debut album follows the path from the EP, the band’s sincere love for classic C86/indie/janglepop is worn with pride. And there’s no reason why not, because these ten songs are filled with lovely melodies and fine arrangements. Sleeve notes by Richard Preece (Lovejoy). For fans of Acid House Kings, McCarthy, Brighter, Felt, The Field Mice and Another Sunny Day. Tracklist: ”When You Are With Him”, “Perfect Friendship”, “Ninetysix”, “It Sometimes Brings Me Down“, “Halfheartedness“, “Unsympathetic Ways“, “Losing Faith”, “Honesty, Honestly”, “New Plans“ and “Start Of Something”. Highly recommended! |
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| 135 SEK |
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| LOVE IS ALL |
CD
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| Two Thousand And Ten Injuries |
Polyvinyl
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| “Two Thousand And Ten Injuries” is an eclectic collection of pop melodies, anchored by New Wave and punk rock rhythms, that are as refined as they are unpredictable. Highlights of the 12 track set include the art punk urgency of “Bigger, Bolder”, the lilting pop of “Never Now”, the Slits-like reggae of “False Pretense” and the classic New Wave rallying cry found in “Dust”. “Two Thousand And Ten Injuries” was produced, recorded and mixed at the band’s home studio, Bananaflux, during the summer of 2009 by Love Is All and Wyatt Cusick (The Aislers Set, Trackstar). All told, “Two Thousand And Ten Injuries” successfully manages to be Love Is All’s most adventurous, and dare we say, accessible, album yet. Tracklist: “Bigger Bolder”, “Repetition”, “Never Now”, “Less Than Thrilled”, “Early Warnings”, “False Pretense”, “The Birds Were Singing With All Their Might”, “Again, Again”, “Kungen”, “A Side In A Bed”, “Dust” and “Take Your Time”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| LOVE IS ALL |
CD
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| A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night |
What´s Your Rupture?
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| From seemingly out of nowhere, Love is All turned up everywhere after their release of “Nine Times That Same Song” and then, impossibly, disappeared to the fate of hype, broken promises and seething expectations. A full three years later, the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions and experiences the band has struggled with. The recording of “A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night” reveals the unsatisfying realities of success. Years in the works, “A Hundred Things...” is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment and figuring out what’s important in finding the relief of the morning’s light at the end of a bad nights sleep. Tracklist: “New Beginnings”, “Give It Back”, “Movie Romance”, “Last Choice”, “Sea Sick”, “Wishing Well”, “When Giants Fall”, “Rumors”, “Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites”, “A More Uncertain Future” and “19 Floors”. |
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| LOVE IS ALL |
CD
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| Nine Times That Same Song |
What´s Your Rupture?
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| Following a bunch of singles on Dolores, Smashing Time and What’s Your Rupture? the 10 track debut album from Love Is All is finally here! A splendid mix of furious, upbeat postpunk and pop melodies filled with pa-pa-pa’s! This second edition of the album comes with a four track bonus disc. Tracklist: “Talk Talk Talk Talk”, “Ageing Had Never Been His Friend”, “Turn The Radio Off”, “Used Goods”, “Busy Doing Nothing”, “Make Out Fall Out Make Up”, “Felt Tip”, “Spinning And Scratching”, “Turn The TV Off” and “Trying Too Hard”. Tracklist bonus disc: “Lost Thrills”, “Kiss Kiss Kiss”, “Felt Tip (Demo)” and “Motorboat”. |
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| 145 SEK |
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| LOVEJOY |
CD
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| Who Wants To Be A Millionaire |
Matinée
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| 125 SEK |
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| LOVEJOY |
CD
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| Everybody Hates |
Matinée
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| The follow-up to “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” is here at last! Ten new songs from Dick Preece, nine new compositions and one cover of The Windmills “Drug Autumn”. Musically a bit more like “Songs In The Key Of…” than “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”, lyrically concearned with love, politics, pop culture and music business. As always with Lovejoy it is a lovely release of excellent melodies and lyrics. An early contributor to your album-of-the-year list! Tracklist: “Radio Lovejoy”, “Everybody Hates Us And We Don’t Care”, “Petrol Stars”, “America”, “Drug Autumn”, “Sandcastles”, “Sid Vicious”, “Nicotine & Love”, “Because You’re Worth It” and “This Could Be An Ending”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| LOVEJOY |
CD
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| Songs In The Key Of Lovejoy |
Matinée
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE LUCKSMITHS |
CD
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| Warmer Corners |
Matinée
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| Seventh album from The Lucksmiths, and they’re back with tons of lovely upbeat melodies and clever lyrics! “Warmer Corners” recalls the greatness of the “Happy Secret” era, with a horn and string section added. Tracklist: “A Hiccup In Your Happiness”, “The Music Next Door”, “Great Lengths”, “Now I'm Even Further Away”, “The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco”, “Sunlight In A Jar”, “If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now”, “Young And Dumb”, “Putting It Off And Putting It Off”, “I Don't Want To Walk Around Alone No More”, “The Fog Of Trujillo” and “Fiction”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE LUCKSMITHS |
CD
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| Where Were We |
Matinée
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| Following in the tradition of the Australian trio's highly popular "Happy Secret" album in 1999, "Where Were We?" is an assortment of non-album tracks from singles and various artist compilations 1999-2001. 14 tracks in total, the album features six songs previously unreleased in the US - including a brand new composition with indie legend Pam Berry on backing vocals - alongside favorites like "T-Shirt Weather", "Even Stevens" and "Friendless Summer”. Recorded in Australia, England and the US, this superb collection documents the strong songwriting and memorable melodies that have helped secure The Lucksmiths' renown as one of today's most popular indie bands. Tracklist: “The Cassingle Revival”, “Myopic Friends”, “A Downside To The Upstairs”, “Can't Believe My Eyes”, “I Prefer The Twentieth Century”, “T-Shirt Weather”, “Tmrw Vs Y'day”, “Southernmost”, “Even Stevens”, “The Great Dividing Range (Demo)”, “Friendless Summer”, “Goodness Gracious”, “Welcome Home” and “Mars”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE LUCKSMITHS |
CD
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| Happy Secret |
Lost & Lonesome
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| Lost And Lonesome reissue of the classic ”Happy Secret” compilation, a bunch of The Lucksmiths songs from 1998 originally released as a compilation on Candle records in 1999. A perfect introduction to the golden era of The Lucksmiths! Tracklist: “Untidy Towns”, “Pin Cushion”, “Edward, Sandwich Hand”, “Abdication!”, “The Art Of Cooking For Two”, “Don’t Come With Me”, “A Great Parker”, “Southernmost”, “Beer Nut” and “Paper Planes”. |
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| 130 SEK |
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| THE LUCKSMITHS |
CD
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| A Good Kind Of Nervous |
Lost & Lonesome
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| Lost And Lonesome reissue of The Lucksmiths’ classic album ”A Good Kind Of Nervous”, originally released on Candle records in 1997. This excellent album pretty much made these Australian popsmiths to the international indiepop darlings they are today. Eleven bouncy, upbeat and infectious pop songs with smart lyrics. Tracklist: “Caravanna”, “Under The Rotunda”, “Train Robbers’ Wives”, “World Encyclopedia Of Twentieth Century Murder”, “The Invention Of Ordinary Everyday Things”, “Punchlines”, “Guess How Much I Love You”, “Columns O’ Steam”, “Up”, “Wyoming” and “Little Athletics”. Highly recommended! |
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| 130 SEK |
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| M COAST |
CD
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| Say It In Slang |
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
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| The sixth album from Elephant 6 collective band M Coast, formerly known as Marshmallow Coast. Light psych pop with with hints of jazz, 60’s sunshine pop and electronica. Fits perfect beside your records by Broadcast, Komeda, Stereolab, The High Llamas and Free Design. Tracklist: “Sailing Around The World”, “Out Of The Water”, “1 Fine Day”, “I Believe In Love”, “Order Can Be A Wonderful Thing”, “Aurora”, “Communication Letdown”, “Electric Bass”, “Feel Like”, “Got 2 Get 2 U”, “Where Stars Go”, “7 Seas”, “Johnny Kasai”, “Thinking Of Illusions” and “Ideas And Integrities”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| MAKTHAVERSKAN |
CD
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| Makthaverskan |
Luxury
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| The self-titled debut album by young Göteborg boy/girl indie quartet Makthaverskan. A great and dark post punk-influenced album filled with guitar pop that pays a tribute to Broder Daniel, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Kid, The Cure and Joy Division – perfected with the charismatic vocals by Maja Mathe Milner. Tracklist: ”Vi Var Människor Från Början”, “It’s You And It’s I”, “Inside Of Me”, “German Boy”, “Know Love”, “Enough”, “Josef”, “Givmild” and “Abstinens”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| MALORY |
CD
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| Not Here Not Now |
Clairecords
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| The debut album from Dresden band Malory, completely remastered and including two bonus tracks (one of them hidden/unlisted), originally released on German label Alison in 2000. Malory craft their beautiful, blissful sonic sound with brilliant sheets of effected guitars, drawing comparisons to the unmistakable gorgeous guitar work of Slowdive. Although the band implement the classic shoegaze-band instrumentation lineup - three guitarists, male & female vocals, drums, and bass - they definitely do not fall into the trap of countless other "ripoff" bands, but rather expand on these gorgeous sounds to create some of the most lush dreampop soundscapes in what seems like eons. Their monumental orchestral-shoegaze opuses and ethereal vocals have drawn comparisons to Slowdive, Spiritualized, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Curve, Chapterhouse, et al. Tracklist: “Falling”, “Spring”, “Underwater”, “Dany”, “Just Be”, “Beauty”, “Sunday Night”, “Words” and “Worry About Something”. |
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| 130 SEK |
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| THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES |
CD
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| Burnt Out Landscapes |
Magic Marker
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| “Burnt Out Landscapes” is a 27 track compilation CD which gathers together all of The Manhattan Love Suicides recordings from their 4 limited edition singles, plus totally remastered U.S radio session tracks, a handful of recordings which have up to now only been available on vinyl or hard to find compilations and finally, 4 brand new tracks not available elsewhere. An absolutely essential collection if you love the sounds of The Jesus And Mary Chain, early My Bloody Valentine, 1960’s Girls In The Garage compilations, lo fi fuzzed out female fronted noise pop played at maximum volume and delivered with no frills but a truckload of attitude. Tracklist: “Jonny Boy”, “Clusterfuck”, “Cracked Open”, “Sycamore Peripheral”, “Detroit Diesel”, “Keep It Coming”, “You’ll Never Get That Guy (WOXY live radio session)”, “Extra Medication”, “Head Over Heels”, “Kick It Back (7” version)”, “Autumn Fades In”, “Orphans”, “Never Far From You”, “Suzy Jones (WOXY live radio session)”, “Way Out Of Reach”, “Heat And Panic”, “Last Stand”, “(The Guy On The) 14th Floor (WOXY live radio session)”, “Burning Wire”, “Dazzle The Blind”, “You’ll Never Get That Guy”, “Thinking Is Killing Me (7” version)”, “Things You’ve Never Done (WOXY live radio session)”, “Wolves”, “Sitting Target”, “Finding The End Of The Line (with Random Number)” and “Life In Vain”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES |
CD
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| The Manhattan Love Suicides |
Magic Marker
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| The Manhattan Love Suicides perform gigs that never last over 15 minutes and are drowned in waves of blistering feedback and guitar noise, but this album proves to anyone who has seen them and doubted their songwriting ability that they can produce the catchiest of pop tunes reminiscent of The Shop Assistants, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Rosehips and The Fizzbombs with a bit of Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Galaxie 500 and My Bloody Valentine thrown in too. So, if you don't automatically think of a shit nightclub when you hear the word Creation, or a girls name when you hear Sarah, or a sandwich shop when someone says Subway, and you actually know what the fuck we're talking about here... then you need to get yourself a copy of this. Tracklist: “Things You've Never Done”, ”Skulls”, ”Evil Side”, ”Crush Whatever”, ”Thinking Is Killing Me”, ”(The Guy On The) 14th Floor”, ”Home”, ”Suzy Jones”, ”Kick It Back”, ”Negative Push”, ”Indian Summer” and “Providence”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| MARINE GIRLS |
CD
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| Lazy Ways + Beach Party |
Cherry Red
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| Once upon a time there were three girls called Alice, Jane and Tracey. The three combined to create the very special sound of “The Marine Girls”. This CD combines their debut album “Beach Party”, originally released 1981 on Dan Treacy's (Television Personalities) Whaam! Records, with their second and last album “Lazy Ways”, originally released 1983 on Cherry Red. From here Tracey Thorn continued her success with a solo career and Everything But The Girl. Tracklist: “A Place In The Sun”, ”Leave Me With The Boy”, ”Falling Again”, ”Love To Know”, ”A Different Light”, ”Sunshine Blue”, ”Second Sight”, ”Don't Come Back”, ”That Fink, Jazz Me Blues Boy”, ”Fever”, ”Shell Island”, ”Lazy Ways”, ”Such A Thing”, ”You Must Be Mad”, ”In Love”, ”Fridays”, ”Tonight?”, ”Times We Used To Spend”, ”Flying Over Russia”, ”Tutti Lo Sanno”, ”All Dressed Up”, ”Honey”, ”Holiday Song”, ”He Got The Girl”, ”Day/Night Dreams”, ”Promises”, ”Silent Red”, ”Dishonesty”, ”20000 Leagues” and ”Marine Girls”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| MARINE TIME KEEPERS |
CD
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| A Perfect Knowledge Of Dreams |
Plastic Pancake
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| Marine Time Keepers is the duo of Sam and Jason from Bristol, UK. Their debut album “A Perfect Knowledge Of Dreams”, released in 2001 on French label Plastic Pancake, is filled with beautifully atmospheric and dreamy guitar pop with girl vocals. If you’re into The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library or Slowdive – this is your cup of tea! “A Perfect Knowledge Of Dreams” is one of those English pop records that would have fitted perfect in the Sarah catalogue. Tracklist: “Polar”, “Like The Whirlwind You Arrived In”, “Stumbling Block”, “Soon Comes A Tear”, “Paper Moon”, “Featherstar”, “Of All The Things” and “Polar (Reprise)”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB |
CD
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| Math And Physics Club |
Matinée
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| Highly anticipated debut album from indie darlings Math and Physics Club! The world fell in love with this Seattle band as soon as its debut “Weekends Away” was released in 2005. The EP sold out of its initial pressing in just a few months and has now earned the distinction as the best selling single on Matinée. The follow-up “Movie Ending Romance” was released later that year to worldwide acclaim and proved the success of the debut was no happy accident. The band spent the past year writing and recording its debut album and the results are truly spectacular. The self-titled album features ten highly melodic songs about relationships and heartbreak. From the first moment of the opening track you know you're in for a treat and it doesn't let up until the final note some 30 minutes later. If you’re into melodic and jangly pop acts such as The Lucksmiths, The Fairways, Belle & Sebastian, The Housemartins, The Smiths, The Softies or Acid House Kings you’ve got a friend in Math And Physics Club. A lovely debut album! Tracklist: “Darling, Please Come Home”, ”I Know What I Want”, ”April Showers”, ”Holidays And Saturdays”, ”La La La Lisa”, ”Look At Us Now”, ”You'll Miss Me”, ”Cold As Minnesota”, ”Such A Simple Plan” and ”Last Dance”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| KEVIN MCGROTHER |
CD
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| Living In An Enid Blyton World |
Kevin McGrother
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| ”Living In An Enid Blyton World” is the fab debut album by British pop elegant Kevin McGrother. It all started back in the early 90’s with Just Like Alice, who later became Tickety-Boo, gigging around the pubs of North East England until Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and his publishers found something in Tickety-Boo’s “Cantona” and called the laywers... “’They fought the lord, the lord won’ and the band crumbled away” as Kevin McGrother puts it. Now, ten years later, Kevin McGrother has collected his old songs and put together this lovely album filled with intelligent and funny lyrics. With songs ranging from jangly and catchy pop songs in an English 80’s pop tradition to some songs accompanied by only piano or accoustic guitar Kevin McGrother has created a varied album where the great songwriting is in focus. For fans of The Hit Parade, Another Sunny Day, The Housemartins ...and English 80’s indiepop in general. Tracklist: ”I'm Glad I'm Not Like You”, ”Haircut of the Century”, “A Week Of Wednesdays”, “Stephen”, “Living In An Enid Blyton World”, “Summer Starts On Sunday”, “Turn Your Life Around”, “The Night I Met Tracey Emin”, “The Same Old Story” and “You'll Never Know”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| MIAOW |
CD
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| When It All Comes Down |
LTM
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| Formed by guitarist/singer Cath Carroll with drummer Chris Fenner and bassist Steve Macguire in 1984, the group Miaow released its debut “Belle Vue” EP the following year, and in 1986 contributed to the celebrated C86 compilation. Alerted to their talents, Tony Wilson brought the group to Factory Records, which lead to the release of two unabashed pop singles in 1987: “When It All Comes Down” and “Break The Code”. Miaow also recorded two Peel Sessions, and left behind demos for an aborted Factory album. This definitive CD collection rounds up all their studio recordings ie: “Belle Vue”, “Fate”, “Grocer's Devil Daughter”, “Sport Most Royal”, “Did She?”, “Following Through”, “Three Quarters Of The Way To Paradise”, “Coockery Casualty”, “When It All Comes Down”, “Did She?”, “When It All Comes Down (12")“, “Just Keep Walking”, “Thames At High Water”, “The Dreamer's Death”, “Fate”, “Break The Code”, “Stolen Ears”, “Fear Of The Sun (Demo)”, “Carnal Drag (Demo)” and “King Creole”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| MINISKIRT |
CD
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| Woody Allen Likes Guitar Pop |
Marsh-Marigold
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| “Woody Allen Likes Guitar Pop” is the debut album by Japanese indiepop band Miniskirt (that named themselves after a Hideki Kaji song), with the male singer coming from Germany. Pure, fun and jangly indiepop with English lyrics (with the exception of “Sonnige Tage (Sunny Days)”, which is written in German) that should please fans of Nixon, Brideshead and The Pastels. Released on German label Marsh-Marigold in 2003. Tracklist: “Be Here With Me”, “Sonnige Tage (Sunny Days)”, “Mirror On The Sea”, “Heading For Honey”, “Tongue Information”, “Woody Allen Likes Japanese Noise Rock”, “These Fish Glow In The Dark”, “Her Blue Contact Lenses Make Me Crazy”, “I Don’t Give Up Hope”, “Nothing You Can Really Get” and “Miss You”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| MO-DETTES |
CD
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| The Story So Far |
Cherry Red
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| “The Story So Far” is actually the first ever CD release by Mo-Dettes, an all-girl post punk/new wave/pop band that somehow has fallen into obscurity. Hopefully this Cherry Red reissue can put an end to that. This CD contains their only album (originally released in 1980) accompanied by five bonus tracks taken from their singles, including the classic single version of “White Mice”. Mo-Dettes is often compared to contemporary bands like The Slits and The Raincoats, which is partly deceptive because Mo-Dettes were a lot more pop-ish than those bands. Tracklist: “Fandango”, “Satisfy”, “Dark Park Creeping”, “The Kray Twins”, “Paint It Black”, “White Mouse Disco”, “Bedtime Stories./ Masochistic Opposite”, “Foolish Girl”, “Norman (He's No Rebel)”, “Sparrow”, “Milord”, “Bitta Truth”, “Two Can Play”, “Tonight”, “Waltz In Blue Mirror” and “White Mice”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| MOOFISH CATFISH |
CD
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| Yours To Share |
Cosy
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| “Yours To Share” is the second release from Stockholm all-girl quartet Moofish Catfish. This CDR album is following their popular debut mini album “On A Sunbeam To Your Heart”. Original and jangly guitar pop/post punk pop with lovely choruses somewhere in the regions of Rough Bunnies, Soda Fountain Rag, My Darling YOU! and Honey Is Cool. Tracklist: “Ten Days In My Room”, “Two Of A Kind”, “About This Girl”, “Oh God! I Love You! What’s Your Name?”, “I’ve Got Your Daniel Johnston T-Shirt”, “Happy On Wheels”, “Yours To Share”, “Fake And Pretend” and “Are You A Boy”. |
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| 70 SEK |
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| MY DARLING YOU! |
CD
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| 16 Major Problems |
Plastilina
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| ”16 Major Problems” is the second release on new Peruan label Plasilina. This CD compiles Göteborg duo My Darling YOU!’s three first EP’s on Ruskstate and Tomt: “My Darling YOU!”, “Moving Out Of Our House And Into Another” and “The Winter Will Take Us All”. Tracklist: “I’m Sitting Here”, “Let Me Know”, “Keep On Talking About Going Out”, “Let Me Try”, “More Than You Thought I Was Capable Of”, “I Can’t Stand Your Teardrops”, “A Girl In A Bar!!”, “Did You Hear The Neighbours?”, “New Year’s Eve”, “Taxidriver”, “Prince John Silver & Gold”, “Midsummer Party”, “Please Don’t Talk To Me I Fall In Love So Easily”, “This Weather Pisses Me Off”, “Hungry & Alone” and “LAST4EVER”. |
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| MY LAUNDRY LIFE |
CD
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| The Art Of Science |
Vollwert
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| My Laundry Life is the one-man project of André Daners from Germany. “The Art Of Science” is his debut album, released just a month after the lovely debut, a split 3” CDR with Kevin McGrother on Cloudberry. And this album offers more, eleven excellent pop songs, in the melancholic jangle pop territories between The Go-Betweens and Harper Lee. There’s quite a lot of bands yearning for this sound, and Mr Daners shows them how to do it! Tracklist: “Sons And Guns”, “Like Tomorrow”, “Out On The Tiles”, “You Feel Loved”, “The Harbour Lights”, “Sunday’s Best”, “Gravity Is Pulling Hard”, “When Your Work Is Done”, “Sway”, “The Routine” And “I’m Screaming Out”. Highly recommended! |
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| 110 SEK |
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| MY LAUNDRY LIFE |
CD
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| How To Wallow In Shame |
Vollwert
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| “How To Wallow In Shame” is the second album from My Laundry Life, the one-man project of André Daners from Germany. Another eleven excellent pop songs in the same melancholic jangle pop territories - between The Go-Betweens and Harper Lee - as on the debut album “The Art Of Science”. Tracklist: “Money Greedy”, “Garden Of Delight”, “Compensation”, “Stones”, “Be Yourself”, “Soul Boxes”, “You’ll Be Ignored”, “Isolation”, “Massacre Street”, “A Crystal Morning” and “The Town Song”. |
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| THE NAMES |
CD
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| Swimming + Singles |
LTM
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| Reissue of Belgian group The Names’ album “Swimming”, originally released on legendary Les Disques du Crepuscule label in 1982. Excellent and imaginative new wave pop produced by Martin Hannett. This CD combines the entire album with extra tracks including both sides of the “Nightshift” and “Calcutta” singles, plus “The Astronaut” and three tracks recorded for Crepuscule compilation albums. 17 tracks. |
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| NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY |
CD
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| Alaska + Love Song For The Dead Che |
LTM
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| Northern Picture Library was formed by ex-Field Mice members Bobby Wratten, Annemari Davies and Mark Dobson. They released three singles and one album between 1991 and 1993 for labels including Sarah Records and Vinyl Japan. Formed after The Field Mice split in 1991, NPL was a less highly-strung project, less song-based and more dark and ambient than before, drawing influence from Talk Talk, Brian Eno and ambient/dance crossover. This CD gathers the “Alaska” album and all three tracks from “Love Song for the Dead Che”, the companion EP recorded at the same sessions. Tracklist: “Untitled *1”, “Into The Ether”, “Catholic Easter Colours”, “Glitter Spheres”, “Insecure”, “Dreams And Stars And Sleep”, “Lucky”, “LSD Icing”, “Truly Madly Deeply”, “Isn't It Time You Faced The Truth?”, “Untitled *2”, “Skylight”, “Of Traffic And The Ticking”, “Lucky (Reprise)”, “Monotone”, “Love Song For The Dead Che *1”, “Love Song For The Dead Che *2” and “The Way That Stars Die”. |
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| NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY |
CD
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| Postscript |
LTM
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| Northern Picture Library was formed by ex-Field Mice members Bobby Wratten, Annemari Davies and Mark Dobson. They released three singles and one album between 1991 and 1993 for labels including Sarah Records and Vinyl Japan. Formed after The Field Mice split in 1991, NPL was a less highly-strung project, less song-based and more dark and ambient than before, drawing influence from Talk Talk, Brian Eno and ambient/dance crossover. This CD gathers together all 8 tracks from the 1994 eps “Blue Dissolve” (on Vinyl Japan) and “Paris” (on Sarah), as well as rare compilation cut “Something Good” (from a Sound Of Music tribute) and three previously unreleased tracks. “Snowscene” is an outtake from the “Alaska” sessions, “Ammonia Train” from a projected Stars Of Heaven tribute, and “Welcome To California” a radical NPL remix of a track by Katmandu. Tracklist: “Paris”, “Norfolk Windmills”, “Last September's Farewell Kiss”, “Signs”, “Dear Faraway Friend”, “Here To Stay”, “Untitled No 3”, “Breaking”, “Something Good”, “Snowscene”, “Ammonia Train” and “Welcome To California”. |
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| THE OCCASIONAL FLICKERS |
CD
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| Scattered Songs |
Plastilina
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| Heartfelt indiepop influenced by Nick Drake, Belle and Sebastian and those This Happy Feeling bands from this lovely Greek outfit! Tracklist: “Meaningless Words”, “A Medal Won In ‘84”, “Alarmclocks Daily”, “Flat And Grey”, “Visions Of Christine”, “Sunwards”, “A Word Of A Friend”, “I Love You More When You’re Asleep”, “A Coastal Ride” and ”Twenty Four”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE OCCASIONAL KEEPERS |
CD
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| True North |
LTM
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| The second The Occasional Keepers album was recorded in February 2008, and again produced by the band with Ian Catt. This band is an ongoing collaboration between Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars), Carolyn Allen (The Wake) and Caesar (The Wake). Retaining plenty of acoustic, reflective elements from the previous record, True North adds experimental, song-based pop touches to great effect. Beth Arzy (Aberdeen, Trembling Blue Stars) also guests, while Caesar and Carolyn revisit their own illustrious past on the track “Factory Records”. Tracklist: ”If The Ravens Leave”, “The Cricket Laced Midnight”, “Town Of 85 Lights”, “Leave The Secret There Forever”, “The Life Of The Fields”, “Factory Records”, “I've Realized, Snow And Feathers”, “Elsinore” and “A Distant Piano On A Foggy Night”. |
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| THE ORCHIDS |
CD
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| Unholy Soul + Singles |
LTM
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| This often overlooked Scottish five-piece made a bunch of ace singles and three excellent albums on Sarah records between 1988 and 1994. From the early years of jangly guitar pop, sometimes compared to Felt, to the guitar pop/dance/electro merge on their last two albums there’s a striking amount of elegant pop melodies waiting to be discovered. LTM’s three disc compilation, with liner notes by Alistair Fitchett, of The Orchids catalogue is probably the most necessary reissue of 2005. This CD contains the newly remastered reissue of The Orchids classic second album “Unholy Soul”, originally released on Sarah records 1991. The bonus tracks include all the tracks from “Penetration EP” 12” single and “Something For The Longing” 7” single. Tracklist: “Me And The Black And White Dream”, “Women Priests And Addicts”, “Bringing You The Love”, “Frank De Salvo”, “Long Drawn Sunday Night”, “Peaches”, “Dirty Clothing”, “Moon Lullaby”, “Coloured Stone”, “The Sadness Of Sex (Pt 1)”, “Waiting For The Storm”, “You Know I'm Fine”, “Bemused, Confused And Bedraggled”, “Pelican Blonde”, “Tropical Fishbowl”, “How Does That Feel”, “Sigh”, “Something For The Longing”, “Farewell Dear Bonnie” and “On A Sunday”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE ORCHIDS |
CD
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| Striving For The Lazy Perfection + Singles |
LTM
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| This often overlooked Scottish five-piece made a bunch of ace singles and three excellent albums on Sarah records between 1988 and 1994. From the early years of jangly guitar pop, sometimes compared to Felt, to the guitar pop/dance/electro merge on their last two albums there’s a striking amount of elegant pop melodies waiting to be discovered. LTM’s three disc compilation, with liner notes by Alistair Fitchett, of The Orchids catalogue is probably the most necessary reissue of 2005. This CD contains the newly remastered reissue of The Orchids classic third album “Striving For The Lazy Perfection”, originally released on Sarah records 1994. The bonus tracks include all the three tracks from the “Thaumaturgy” single, plus two previously unreleased demo tracks. Tracklist: “Obsession No. 1”, “Striving For The Lazy Perfection”, ”The Searching”, “Welcome To My Curious Heart”, “Avignon”, “A Living Ken And Barbie”, “Beautiful Liar”, “A Kind Of Eden”, “Prayers To St Jude”, “Lovechild”, “Give A Little Honey”, “I've Got To Wake Up To Tell You My Dreams”, “The Perfect Reprise”, “Thaumaturgy”, “I Was Just Dreaming”, “Between Sleeping And Waking”, “It's Ours” and “The Letter”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE ORCHIDS |
CD
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| Lyceum + Singles |
LTM
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| This often overlooked Scottish five-piece made a bunch of ace singles and three excellent albums on Sarah records between 1988 and 1994. From the early years of jangly guitar pop, sometimes compared to Felt, to the guitar pop/dance/electro merge on their last two albums there’s a striking amount of elegant pop melodies waiting to be discovered. LTM’s three disc compilation, with liner notes by Alistair Fitchett, of The Orchids catalogue is probably the most necessary reissue of 2005. This CD contains the newly remastered reissue of The Orchids classic debut mini album “Lyceum”, originally released on Sarah records 1989. The bonus tracks include all the tracks from The Orchids’ first three singles on Sarah; “I’ve Got A Habit”, “Underneath The Window, Underneath The Sink” and “What Will We Do Next?”. Also included are both sides of the rare 7” single released on Bob Stanley’s Caff label. Tracklist: “It's Only Obvious”, “A Place Called Home”, “Caveman”, “The York Song”, “Carrole-Anne”, “Hold On”, “Blue Light”, “If You Can't Find Love”, “I've Got a Habit”, “Apologies”, “Give Me Some Peppermint Freedom”, “Defy The Law”, “Underneath The Window, Underneath The Sink”, “Tiny Words”, “Walter”, “What Will We Do Next?”, “As Time Goes By”, “Yawn”, “An Ill Wind That Blows” and “All Those Things”. |
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| THE ORCHIDS |
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| Good To Be A Stranger |
Siesta
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| The Orchids are back after 14 years of silence! With 10 brand new tracks! This often overlooked Scottish five-piece made a bunch of ace singles and three excellent albums on Sarah records between 1988 and 1994. From the early years of jangly guitar pop, sometimes compared to Felt, to the guitar pop/dance/electro merge on their last two albums there’s a striking amount of elegant pop melodies waiting to be discovered. And now there’s a fourth album to add, and a truly great album too. The dancey side from their third album “Striving For The Lazy Perfection” is absent, these songs are more of a journey back to The Orchids’ roots in guitar pop - but now in a slightly more mellow way. “Good To Be A Stranger” proves that The Orchids have an excellent talent for writing intelligent pop music. Welcome back! Tracklist: “Good To Be A Stranger”, “Take My Hand”, “Xylophone Song”, “I Need You To Believe In Me”, “The Last Thing (On Your Mind)”, “Another Saturday Night”, “Down To The Ocean”, “Feel The Magic”, “Do It For Yourself” and “You Could Do Something To Me”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| THE PALE FOUNTAINS |
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| Longshot For Your Love |
Marina
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| Excellent compilation of rare and unheard tracks by the influential Liverpool band The Pale Fountains. “Longshot For Your Love” was released by German label Marina in 1998 and is a brilliant combination of early recordings released on Les Disques Du Crepuscule in 1982, and BBC Radio session tracks including songs from a Peel Session. This CD very much uncovers the period between The Pale Fountains’ debut single on Operation Twilight 1982 and the debut album “Pacific Street” on Virgin 1984. It’s a great starting point for discovering the well-crafted and shimmering melodies Michael Head penned in the 80’s, with influences from 60’s icons like Love, Sergio Mendes and Bacharach/David. Perfect for fans of aforementioned acts, Aztec Camera, Orange Juice, Dislocation Dance and Cocoanut Groove. Tracklist: “Just A Girl”, “(There's Always) Something On My Mind”, “Lavinia's Dream”, “Longshot For Your Love”, “Thank You”, “The Norfolk Broads”, “Benoit's Christmas”, “Hey There Fred”, “Palm Of My Hand”, “Free”, “We Have All The Time In The World”, “Just A Girl” and “Love Situation”. Highly recommended! |
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| 135 SEK |
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| PANTS YELL! |
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| Alison Statton |
Soft Abuse
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| Pants Yell! is a group of three young men that hail from the red brick sidewalks of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Andrew Churchman and Sterling Bryant formed the band three years ago within the walls of a Boston art school, and have since released albums and singles aimed at the hearts of an international group of journal writers, unrequited lovers, liberal arts majors, and romantic adolescent daydreamers. Now with new drummer Casey Keenan from Major Stars, Pants Yell! have shifted into a more confident, expansive form of chiming pop music. The album title Alison Statton pays homage to the lovely young Welsh girl who fronted Young Marble Giants and Weekend. The songs pay homage to failed relationships and the uncertainty of youth via a batch of intelligently informed compositions; where female vocals float through as trumpets and saxophones spurt lost Stax lines, a glockenspiel chimes, guitars feedback, drums flail and a young man sings sweetly about all the things young men should sing sweetly about. Alison Statton confirms Andrew Churchman’s position as top-notch modern songwriter. His words and themes flirt as much with the films of Truffaut as they do with Jonathan Richman’s earnestness and the Go-Betweens’ golden days of mellifluous pop truisms. All in all, Alison Statton is modern pop music at its best. Tracklist: ”More Purple”, “Reject, Reject”, “Tried To Be Good”, “Evan's Way”, “A New City Life”, “Magenta And Green”, “Shoreham Kent”, “Alison Statton”, “The Royal We”, “For Dee” and “Two French Sisters”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| PANTS YELL! |
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| Received Pronunciation |
Slumberland
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| Life, you will have observed, is not a series of epic epiphanies and seismic milestones, but a succession of quiet weeks and months, interrupted at rare intervals – if you’re lucky – by fleeting moments of significance or grace: a new crush, a break-up, the discovery of a particularly good book or song or film, an intense conversation with a friend that you know you won’t forget. Some of the best pop bands of the past several decades have made it their mission to evoke, in their words and in their music, the understated beauty of everyday living. Think of the Go-Betweens, who found boundless romantic possibility in going for a walk or spending the night in; or Belle and Sebastian’s hushed remembrances of little failures and lessons learned, and sympathetic portraits of young misfits struggling to make sense of the world. Pants Yell!, despite their misleadingly emphatic (and eternally mysterious) name, belong to this crucial lineage. Together since 2003, when they formed at a Boston art school, the trio is the vehicle for singer-guitarist Andrew Churchman’s modestly proportioned but perfectly realized songs. Abetted by co-founding bassist Sterling Bryant and drummer Casey Keenan (who joined in 2007), his two- and three-minute marvels draw power from restraint and poetry from plainspoken observation – in short, they are greater than the sum of their parts. Not for nothing did he name the band’s last album “Alison Statton”, in honor of the former Young Marble Giants/Weekend singer, who understood better than most that a whisper, dispensed properly, is always more affecting than a scream. “Alison Statton”, the third Pants Yell! album, brought the band unprecedented critical and popular success internationally. And now they’ve come to rest at their spiritual home, Slumberland Records, with its remarkable follow-up, “Received Pronunciation”. In nine songs and 26 minutes, and without ever deploying a distortion pedal, they make a greater emotional impact than an album twice as long and at double the volume. Which isn’t to say the album lacks for visceral sonic thrills – hear “Someone Loves You” build to an ecstatic climax that perfectly justifies the song’s title, or the elegant guitar solo that launches “Cold Hands” skyward. This is pop that doesn’t need to raise its voice or shake its fist; it wins you with its mind and its heart. Tracklist: “Frank And Sandy”, “Rue De La Paix”, “Cold Hands”, “Got To Stop”, “Spider”, “Someone Loves You”, “Marble Staircase”, “Not Wrong” and “To Take”. Highly recommended! |
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| 140 SEK |
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| CLOETTA PARIS |
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| Secret Eyes |
Skywriting
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| Debut album from secretive Stockholm girl Cloetta Paris, who makes delicious and classic italo disco with a distinct pop feeling – just like it were made back in that decade of huge shoulder pads! Co-written and co-produced by that mysterious Clive Reynolds – well, mysterious until you unfold the sleeve and see that it’s Roger Gunnarsson, jangly popsmith and italo connoisseur, and the man behind adorable bands Nixon, Free Loan Investments and most recent The Garlands. Tracklist: “Did We Collide?”, “Secret Eyes”, “Broken Heart Tango”, “Already Missing You”, “Breakdown”, “I Miss You, Someone”, “So Serious”, “Beat Street”, “Young Girls In Town” and ”Arabian Nights”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| THE PEARLY GATECRASHERS |
CD
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| But Wait There´s More |
Plastilina
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| The legendary Australian band formed by Lenore Betteridge and Tim Butt return with a new album! This is their fourth full length, the first since 1996 “Popsuey”. Fans will be happy to know they just sound as good as ever! Catchy and fun indiepop for fans of Slow Down Tallahassee, Heavenly and The Darling Buds! Tracklist: “We Are Family”, “Nothing Comes For Free”, “Asleep”, “Sweet Marie”, “Heaven Meets The World”, “Penny Drops”, “Summer’s Here”, “Life Is Gonna Get You”, “Fad”, “Your Brother’s Drums”, “Only Minutes To Go”, “21” And “Geek”. |
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| 140 SEK |
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| PENCIL TIN |
CD
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| A Gentle Hand To Guide You Along |
Bus Stop
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| “A Gentle Hand To Guide You Along” is the sole album by Australian trio of Bart Cummings (The Cats Miaow, Pencil Tin, Hydroplane and The Shapiros), Bianca Lew (The Steinbecks) and Robert Cooper (The Sugargliders, The Earthmen, The Steinbecks) released by US label Bus Stop (responsible for classic releases by Rocketship, The Springfields and Allen Clapp & His Orchestra). Soft, gentle and jangly pop with the lovely and trademarked sound of Bart Cummings’ project. Tracklist: “Friday”, “How Was I To Know”, “Smile”, “Dumb”, “Pocket Book”, “Once In A While”, “Secrets”, “Know”, “Awkward”, “Make Believe”, “Be With You” and “Witty”. Highly recommended! |
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| 125 SEK |
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| PIA FRAUS |
CD
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| In Solarium |
Clairecords
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| Second album from Estonian band Pia Fraus. Shoegaze/dreampop with farfisa organ, synthesizers, "noise", bass, drums, layers of guitars and boy/girl vocals. For fans of Rocketship, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab and Slowdive. Please note! The CDs were printed with the incorrect track listing. The following is the correct one: “400 & 57”, “Right Hand Traffic”, “How Fast Can You Love” , “Outskirts Of Me” , “No Need For Sanity”, “Octobergirl”, “Bibabo”, “The End Of Time...”, “On You” and “Zodalovers”. |
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| 130 SEK |
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| PIA FRAUS |
CD
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| After Summer |
Clairecords
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| “After Summer” is the fourth album by Estonian shoegaze/electronica six-piece Pia Fraus. This time they asked one of their idols to co-produce, the Glasgow pop legend Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, The Pastels) swapped files with the band and the result is another excellent Pia Fraus album – filled with dreamy, layered shoegaze/electronica pop and boy/girl vocals. Perfect for fans of My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab and Slowdive.Tracklist: “Springsister”, “Yennissey”, “Sailing Yes”, “Doctor Optimism”, “House Eaten”, “After Summer”, “Late Again”, “Mute The Birds”, “Loveloops” and “Far Fade Whisper”. |
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| THE PINES |
CD
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| It´s Been A While |
Matinée
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| Superb 20-track collection of singles, compilation appearances, and unreleased tracks from London pop duo The Pines - a collaboration of legendary American songstress Pam Berry and amiable English gent Joe Brooker featuring strong songwriting, intricate guitars, and exquisite harmonies. Joe is a profilic songwriter and one-half of English pop duo The Foxgloves, while Pam’s distinguished resume includes association with notable indie bands of the last decade including Belmondo, Black Tambourine, Bright Coloured Lights, The Castaway Stones, Glo Worm, The Seashell Sea, The Shapiros, The Snowdrops, and Veronica Lake, plus guest spots on recordings by The Clientele, Jasmine Minks, The Lucksmiths, The Relict, and The Saturday People. Beginning in 2000, The Pines released a series of limited edition singles for esteemed record labels Annika, Becalmed, Foxyboy, Gifted, Long Lost Cousin, and Matinée and contributed compilation tracks. In addition to highlights from these releases, “It’s Been A While” includes three songs from an extremely rare self-released Christmas CD and unreleased covers of songs by Young Marble Giants and The Cat’s Miaow. Tracklist: “Milk Bar”, “A Hundred Doors”, “Forget-Me-Nots”, “Chalet”, “A Rainy Day”, “MGM”, “Please Don't Get Married (Without Asking Me)”, “Static”, “Fields In Spain”, “Marie Claire”, “Baby, You'll Do”, “Aurora”, “Some Slow Afternoon”, “Brand-New-Life”, “Familiar”, “Seven Clubs”, “Miracles”, “High Street”, “I See Stars” and “Kisses & Fog”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| PINKIE |
CD
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| Sharon Fussy |
Planting Seeds
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| Pinkie is the solo project by Alex Sharkey, known from Brighter and Fosca. If you’re a fan of his earlier work you will surely not be dissapointed with “Sharon Fussy”. Melancholy mixed with beautiful melodies and one of the best albums of 2004. |
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| 120 SEK |
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| PIPAS |
CD
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| A Cat Escaped |
Matinée
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| Second album from London-based international pop duo Pipas. Successfully combining harmonic indiepop with dance music, band members Mark Powell (ex-Bella Vista and Moonlings) and Spanish native Lupe Nunez-Fernandez team up with an ingeniously programmed drum machine to create infectious popsongs which manage to be both unpretentiously simple and naturally sophisticated. "A Cat Escaped" is a tantalizing treat of modern sounds and guitars that jangle in all the right places, with short, sweet songs and breezy vocals featuring plenty of ba-ba-ba's. Tracklist: “What Nobody Does”, “The Conversation”, “Barbapapa”, “Rock And/Or Roll”, “Old Kent Road”, “The Witches”, “Cruel And Unusual”, “A Cat Escaped”, “Emblematic” And “Run Run Run”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| PIPAS |
CD
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| Chunnel Autumnal |
Matinée
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| Originally a self-released 10”on Long Lost Cousin. Sadly it has been out of print for a while. Thanks to Matinée this charming debut album is now available again, together with the three tracks from the single “A Short Film About Sleeping”. 11 tracks of lovely boy/girl vocals, intimate and melodic songs. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| POPUNDRET |
CD
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| Montmartre 15 40 |
A West Side Fabrication
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| “Montmartre 15 40”, released in 1996, is surely one of the hidden treasures of Swedish indie pop! This lovely album is the only one they’ve made (so far) and it’s filled with the jangliest of jangly guitar pop in the tradition of The Smiths and Happydeadmen. Great! Tracklist: ”Life Can Be So Hard”, “Shiver Gone”, “Friendship Love”, “Behind Her”, “Radiant Warmth”, “Happy Great”, “Hollowed Grief”, “I'm Going Out She Said And How Would I Know”, “It Doesn't Matter To Me”, “Tiger Woman”, “That What Makes Me Love You”, “Harriet” and “Go Find The One”. |
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| 145 SEK |
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| PREMISE BEACH |
CD
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| At Promise Beach |
Jigsaw
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| This trio from Tacoma/Seattle led a brief but full life, playing as many shows as they could before disbanding and scattering across the country. The nimble guitar melodies and frantic vocals give the songs a sound reminiscent of the Feelies or The Embarrassment. Tracklist: “Touching Towns”, “Your Grave”, “Sidewalk Girl”, “Pleasure And/Or Pain”, “My Corpse”, “Brother”, “Catching Up”, “I Should Know”, “Walt’s” and “These People”. |
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| 100 SEK |
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| THE RADIO DEPT |
CD
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| Clinging To A Scheme |
Labrador
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| The long wait is finally over! The Radio Dept.’s ”Clinging To A Scheme” is without doubt this year’s most eagerly anticipated Swedish indie pop album. It’s been four long years, but a simple press on Play and you’ll know it’s been worth every second. “Clinging To A Scheme” combines the best components from their previous albums “Lesser Matters” and “Pet Grief” with soul guitars, P-funk, cut/paste-beats and 70’s futuristic orchestra sounds. Breathtaking! Tracklist: “Domestic Scene”, “Heaven’s On Fire”, “This Time Around”, “Never Follow Suit”, “A Token Of Gratitude”, “The Video Dept.”, “Memory Loss”, “David”, “Four Months In The Shade” and “You Stopped Making Sense”. |
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| 145 SEK |
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| RED PONY CLOCK |
CD
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| God Made Dirt |
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
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| “God Made Dirt” is the debut album from San Diego ten piece Red Pony Clock. These 13 tracks are filled with pop melodies backed by rich orchestration; guitar, bass, drums, piano, organ, marimba, xylophone, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, moog and some more! An original and fun mix of light psych, tijuana brass sound and indiepop. Tracklist: “Welcome Back”, “The Hardest Half”, “There’s Nothing Wrong w/ Getting High”, “Joshua”, “Take A Side”, “Special People”, “Don’t Forget Who Your Friends Are”, “God Made Dirt”, “Twelve Color Step”, “Time”, “Che Marie”, “The World” and “My New Best Friend”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| RED SLEEPING BEAUTY |
CD
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| Soundtrack |
Siesta
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| Red Sleeping Beauty were a Swedish indiepop quartet that existed from 1992 to 1997. Band members Niklas Angergård (Acid House Kings), Kristina Borg, Mikael Matsson (Shermans, The Charade) and Carl-Johan Näsström were almost unknown in Sweden at the time, yet they managed to make an impact on the international indiepop scene with their sunny and jangly pop that preceeded the band member’s later projects Acid House Kings, Shermans and The Charade. “Soundtrack” is Red Sleeping Beauty’s final album and it was released in 1997. Tracklist: “The Young Pretenders”, “Soul Provider”, “The Things I´d Say”, “Nervous”, “Summer At Its Best”, “Enough”, “Casino Classic”, “Certainly”, “How Do You Kill Your Food?”, “It Happens”, “Your Opinion”, “The Light That Guides You” amd “You´re All There Is”. |
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| SAMBASSADEUR |
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| European |
Labrador
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| The single ”Days” set the direction for the new Sambassadeur album ”European”. It’s irresistibly catchy, folky and yet exquisitely luxurious in its appeal - you’d picture the band performing the song barefoot under crystal chandeliers. Tracklist: “Stranded”, “Days”, “I Can Try”, “Forward Is All”, “Albatross”, “High And Low”, “A Remote View”, “Sandy Dunes” and “Small Parade”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| SAMBASSADEUR |
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| Sambassadeur |
Labrador
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| The debut album from Swedish pop quartet Sambassadeur, released in 2005. Great melodious guitar pop from this band who cited The Go-Betweens, France Gall and Wire as their influences at the time of the release. Surely of the finest new bands on Labrador in the last couple of years. Tracklist: “New Moon”, “Ice & Snow”, “One Last Remark”, “Sense Of Sound”, “If Rain”, “Still Life Ahead”, “La Chanson De Prévert”, “Between The Lines”, “In The Calm”, “Just Because Of You”, “Whatever Season” and “Posture Of A Boy”. |
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| 135 SEK |
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| SARANDON |
CD
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| The Completist´s Library |
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
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| A compilation of all the tracks that appeared on the four 7 track 7” singles that Sarandon released on various labels 2004-2007, 28 tracks in total! Short and spiky post-punk pop tunes, with influenses from Big Flame, The Wolfhounds, The June Brides and Josef K. Tracklist: ”Pin Up”, ”Birds”, ”Make Fun”, “Frank”, “Your Devotion”, “Bored”, “Janet & Susan”, “Bored ‘A Little Light Lunch?’”, “Hiccup”, “Politique”, “Mavis”, “Little Cake”, “Moo”, “Humanoid”, “Joe & James”, “Joe Marimba & James Xylo”, “Don’t Say No”, “Prove It”, “Health”, “Manky”, “A Hat”, “Happy”, “George & Maisie”, “Prove It - The Koto Agreement”, “Kitten”, “Angela”, “Dance”, “Meet Warren”, “Virginity”, “Lovely”, “Anthony & Simon” and “Dance Outback”. |
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| 125 SEK |
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| SARANDON |
CD
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| Kill Twee Pop! |
Slumberland
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| Since their formation by Crayola in 2003, Sarandon have marked themselves as a potent group of post-punk tacticians on a mission to save indie from wetness, knee-jerk twee posturing and careless cardigan wearing. Taking their cues from the rough angularity beloved by bands on labels like Ron Johnson and Slampt, Sarandon are the proud parents of a string of five 7" EPs (and one compilation thereof) fairly bursting with short, sharp tunes, wiry riff-mad guitars, spastic drumming and terse-yet-clever lyrics. Trimming all musical and lyrical fat, Sarandon cram more ideas and passion into 1:30 than many bands do across a whole record. Some points of comparison that spring to mind include Big Flame, The Minutemen, Boghsed, Fire Engines and The Fall, and though Sarandon share some musical DNA with those groups they've also forged their own path and unique sound. Crayola has a notable (and widely-noted) talent for somehow managing to marry naggingly catchy tunes to corruscating blasts of guitar mayhem, combining the punchy, driving tunes with surprisingly memorable melodies and smart lyrics. It's pop, but possibly the angriest and most aggressive pop you've heard. As we enter 2008, Sarandon have settled on a line-up consisting of Crayola, Tom Greenhalgh on drums and ex-Big Flame/Great Leap Forwar | | |