Day 341. So yeah, don’t forget that this week I will start shipping Verandan orders!!! Very exciting! Pre-orders will be shipped first of course. The official release date is February 20.
Ski Saigon: “Sees the Albatross”, the debut album by the London based Ski Saigon will be out on the label Too Good to be True. This label, from Brest, France, is actually a new label by the people behind Beko Disques. The album is getting a CD release on March 4 and it will be very limited, just 150 copies. One of the songs is available to preview at the moment, “It’s Already Tomorrow”, and I highly recommend checking it out.
The Lodger: the great Leeds band will be back with a new album called “Cul-De-Sac”. 13 new songs. We can check one of those songs, “Dual Lives”, on Bandcamp. The album will be available through different labels around the world and it seems only in vinyl LP format.
Grids and Dots: the Sydney, Australia, band is back with a new song. It is called “What Happens to Friendships in Winter?”. That’s a good question indeed. Here in the north we are in winter and in a pandemic. So yeah, haven’t seen many friends. Speaking of pandemic, it seems the band actually have some gigs coming up in February and March. Lucky indeed.
CIEL: the Dutch combo also returns with a new song called “Pretty Face”. As with previous songs I’m enjoying this quite a lot. Very nice female vocals and melodies. I just think it’d be great to see a release by them, an album would be nice, right?
Shiny Times: and lastly on today’s quick reviews of indiepop discoveries on the web we find that Kim Weldin has continued making new music! It’s been a while since I last hear from her, probably 7, 8 months? so it is cool to see two new songs on her Bandcamp, “Dark Day” and “Everything is Gray”. Lovely bedroom pop.
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I keep discovering new Australian bands from the 80s and early 90s thanks to that great Youtube channel stoneeyedkiller. It is true he sometimes recommends some bands I’ve posted here but as of late I think I am being inspired more by his posts than him from mine!
The latest discovery is this Sydney post punk/pop band from the 80s called The Call. I already know, by their name, that it will prove difficult to find much information about them. Their name is not a good one for Google.
But there are some good news. There’s a Bandcamp and a Facebook page. So we’ll be able to find songs and some information!
Firstly, on the Bandcamp we find six song: “Winterland”, “Model”, “Andy’s Day”, “Memories” and “Road to Freedom”. We don’t know if these were properly released or not. We do know that they were recorded between 1981 and 1993. That seems a bit odd, six songs recorded in 12 years? There must be more! Anyone would know?
We also know the band members: David Thompson, Michael Pickells, Peter Ciobo and Steve Starr (Thompson). On the Bandcamp photo there are only 3 members though.
It also tells us that the band played in Sydney, Canberra and Newcastle. It also tells us that the band reformed in the year 2020 to play live shows as well as live streams and they plan to record. That’s interesting!
Their Facebook has less information. There are just a few photos of their 2020 rehearsals.
Looking for more information about the band members I find that Michael Pickells played in a band called The Lounge Lizards. And I am pretty sure that Peter Ciobo was in the band Deckchairs Overboard. I had a hard time finding any projects by the other band members.
But yeah, not that much info, but we get to listen to them and hopefully we’ll learn more about The Call in the near future!
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