Day 429

Tapeworms: Friday at last. We start with this band from Lille, France, and their latest song, “Magic Pierrot”. This is my introduction to this band, this surprising song which I am having trouble to categorize.It is a super fun song, poppy and catchy, a song perfect to play on repeat.

Broome: “Winter Sun Demo” is how we discover this one-man project by Brian Bielawa from Brooklyn, NYC. There is no other songs nor other information, just this fine dreamy shoegaze track.

Kid Coyote: let’s stay in the U.S. and travel north, to Boston. There we find the duo Kid Coyote formed by Joe O’Neill and Clara Berry. Their latest release is the “Good Company” EP. It is available digitally now and it includes four fine pop slices, “Good Company”, “Plastic”, “Distracted Fantasy” and “Young”.

Coral Grief: now to the other coast, to Seattle. Another duo, Lena Farr-Morrissey and Sam Fason. No EP this time but a digital single. It is called “Crumble” and it is another dreampop track. It is different. It is softer, more sparce, melancholic and hopeful, a lovely song.

Apartamentos Acapulco: another great song is the latest by the Spanish band is a video recorded in Argentina it seems. The song is called “Y Tú en Barcelona” and is available now everywhere digitally.

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My Serbian friend Nikola gave me the heads up about the Paisley, Scotland, band The Handsomes. I had no idea they existed and well, let’s see if we can find anything about them on the web.

The Swansea-based label Lavender Sweep Records seem to be looking for information about them. So they uploaded one of the songs the band recorded. They have identified this song as “Paisley” and they mention it came from a demo tape of the band. Sadly they haven’t added any information of any of the other songs that were included in this cassette. The only other detail shared is that it dates from sometime in the 80s.

There is a photo of the cassette. An AGFA LNX60. The tape had some art. It shows a smiling woman with sunglasses, a dress and a cool beehive hairdo.

The song sounds very much influenced by The Smiths. What else can we find?

On Facebook I noticed the Welsh label tried to get contact information as well. Seems there was no luck. Someone that was in the Glasgow band The Clinic seems to mention that one of the band members in The Handsomes used to be called Soapie.

Not much more. But maybe some of the readers of the blog remember this band. I’d be very curious to find out more information about them as well!

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Listen
The Handsomes – Paisley