Day 348. Almost a year now. I’m glad the Verandan 7″ is out now, it is a good way to manage the expectations. One year of being mostly stuck at home. One year without gigs. And one wonders when will it end. Don’t know if counting the days is the most sane thing to do.
Beach Youth: coming out in April is the album “Postcard”. It will be available on CD and vinyl. There are 11 songs, and we can preview four of them, “Love Yourself II”, “Two Bedrooms”, “A Changed Man” and “In My Chest”. The release is coming out on two French labels, Music from the Masses and Wewant2Records, and on Shelflife in the US. What I’m hearing is very good. I should talk to Ed soon, I will need a copy of the record!
Fightmilk: another upcoming release is the album “Contender” by the London band Fightmilk. Coming on vinyl and CD on May 14 we get to preview two out of 14 songs on Bandcamp. Yeah, we can check out “I’m Starting to Think You Don’t Even Want to go to Space” and “If You had a Sister…”. I really enjoy the guitars and female vocals on both of them. Definitely we should look forward to the second album by Fightmilk!
The Line Managers: first time I check this Birmingham trio. They seem to be brand new as the two songs on Bandcamp have just been uploaded there. And that’s all, no more songs. “Nothing Seems to Work” and “You Should Know” are how they are introducing themselves to indie fans. They sound fine to me. Only available digitally too.
Creature in the Spiral: we head to Laredo, Texas, to discover this cool shoegaze band. Their latest release is only available digitally it seems, a short EP titled “FEB”. The opening track, “Play”, is probably my favourite, fuzzy and with great melodies.
Juliper Sky: and we end up this roundup with a band I have featured in the past, Juliper Sky from Manchester. They make beautiful guitar-layered music. As they mention it, they do know how to marry shoegaze, dreampop and psychedelia. Their latest song is not exception, “Another Life”. Check it out.
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Time to head to Sweden. The year is 1992. And a maxi-single is released by the band Julia Dream. It comes out on the unknown Yellowmoon Productions (catalog YEL001) and we don’t know nothing more. Did it make a splash within the indie scene in Sweden? That’s something I’ll try to find out.
Yellowmoon Productions seems to have been the band’s own label. There are no other releases listed on this label. We do know though some details about the release and that always makes me hopeful about finding more information about the band.
Three songs were included in the CD single, “Liquid House”, “Angel” and “Seeing Out”. They were produced and mixed at White Room, in Copenhagen. The producer was Lars Paulström.
This makes me think that the band hailed from the south of Sweden, probably from Skåne. Maybe from the city of Malmö? We’ll see…
We know the band members too.
Thomas Lundberg – guitar, vocals and drums on “Angel”
Anders Westerström – bass, vocals
Anders Linén – keyboards
Nicklas Johansson – drums on “Liquid House” and “Seeing Out”
The other credit worth mentioning is that Christina Curman did vocals on “Angel”.
Then I find an address on the sleeve. Yes! Yellowmoon Productions hailed from Malmö. The street is Agnesgatan, about 15 minute walk from Malmö’s central train station. In the old town area. How nice. I remember walking those streets and would love to go back soon.
Discogs doesn’t list any compilation appearances nor other releases by the band. It is a shame. Their songs are great.
But there are good news. There is a Bandcamp! I should have started there, right? Well, I didn’t know it existed! Here they have the three songs of the “Julia Dream” CD-single and two demo cassettes to boot.
The first demo dates from 1990 and has four songs. These are “Angel”, “Insomnia”, “A Multitude of Ladybugs” and “The Madcamp Laughs”.
The 2nd demo is from 1991 and has four songs as well, “Here We Go”, “Like Magic”, “Leafsong” and “Sun”.
This is great, I’ll spend an afternoon listening to the songs. Now it would be great if we get in touch with the band and find more information about them. These are all good and would love to know if there are even more songs! If the band members went to be in other projects and more. There’s always tons of questions to ask!
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Listen
Julia Dream – Liquid House
