Day 441

No Suits in Miami: one of our favourite Swedish bands is back with a terrific new single, “Buffy”! And no, the song is not about vampire killing! As usual, lovely vocals, jangling guitars, and top melodies. It is always a pleasure to listen to the Lund based band!

The Edible Eyes: another favourite band, formed by ex members of The Blanche Hudson Weekend and The Manhattan Love Suicides is back with a new song too, “Until the Morning Comes Around”. This one is a bit more post punk than indiepop if I could categorize it. It is being released on a split 7″ with the band Sissy Space Echo & the Invisible Collaborators. Preorders are up on Bandcamp.

Answers: now let’s head to Melbourne. There, in Australia, we find this guitar-driven project and their second album, “Fools in Despair”. It is available digitally only it seems and has 7 songs. The guitars chime and the melodies are great. They consider themselves post punk, and that might be right, but they are on the melodic side of the post punk spectrum!

Señor Kino: now we go to Hermosillo, Mexico. There we find the dreampop band Señor Kino and their newest song, “Aurora Boreal”. The song is quite nice and even has a video worth checking out!

Not Even Close: and we round up today’s bands with Sweden’s Not Even Close. Their latest single is “Dödsgest” and is a fine slice of punky pop in Swedish! I don’t know much about the band but previously, earlier this year, they released another single called “Lemons”.

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One single released in 1991 in their own Satyrday Records was all this British band left us. Two songs and one remix. Can we find any othere details about them?

The single came out on 7″ and 12″. The catalog number was SATYR T001. The 7″ didn’t have a sleeve. The 12″ did. The producer was Charlie Francis who had played bass with Toyah. The engineer was Ian Caple. The songs were recorded at Stone Room Studios, in Shepherds Bush, in London. I went once to that area. Many many years ago. It has been such a long time since I’ve been to London. I need to return soon. But, would it be safe to assume the band hailed from London?

The 7″ had “Shooting Air” on the A side and “Oh Yeah!!” on the B side. The 12″ had both of the songs on the A side and we find the “Shooting Air (The Blitz Mix)” on the B side.

Discogs lists a name, a band member, Chris Hill. He is a bassist it says and had been in the band The Buzz in the early 80s in Shrewsbury? Is it the same Chris Hill?

There are two compilation appearances. Both of them have the band contributing the song “Belief”. The first dates from 1991, a compilation CD called “Exposed – New Noise for the Nineties” that came as a freebie with the Exposed magazine. Then in 1992 the band appeared on “Tape Horn”, another compilation from a magazine. This time it was a tape comp given away by Deadline Magazine.

I found the drummer, Ian Davies. He lives in Marseille now. He has a Soundcloud and there he has shared music he has worked on, The Satyrs’ “Shooting Air” and “Believe” included. Other projects of his are Sister Jo Jo, The Gilberts, Texas Martha and the House of Twang and Ochre.

Another member was Stuart Evans. On a website called Famous Welsh it mentions that The Satyrs are progenitors of Britpop. It also says that he was born in 1962 at Llandovery, Wales.

I have three names. I haven’t found any other details. But I hope I get some help eventually. The three songs I’ve heard are very good. Who remembers them?

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Listen
The Satyrs – Shooting Air