Day 462
Gap Year: the cassette album “Flat Out” is now sold out. It is a shame. It is a wonderful 9 song album. The Perth, Australia, band jangles like indiepop bands from the heyday. Chiming and chiming, 9 wonderful songs that deserve every indiepop fan’s attention! A band to keep an eye for sure!
Neil Brogan: “Magnolia Day” is the first track out of the new album by the Belfast bedroom popster. The album will be titled the same way, “Magnolia Day” and will be released on July 9th. Not sure in which formats though. The song is a bright sunny pop song, a feel good song, that makes me want to listen to the rest of the record. Hopefully it is good as this one!
Stomp Talk Modstone: the Japanese band is a favourite of the blog, been recommended time and time again. Their brand of shoegaze is up my street, with poppy melodies and superb walls of guitar. They have just released a new digital single, “The Locket”, which I had to recommend. So head to their Bandcamp and have a listen.
Palm Ghosts: the Nashville, Tennessee, guitar pop band has just released a collection of digital singles and b sides which is a delight. The compilation released on CD and titled “Singles + B Sides” is out now. It includes 13 songs of classic jangle!
Space Daze: and we finish this Wednesday’s recommendations with Seattle’s Space Daze. The ex-Seapony has made a wonderful new EP titled “Visible Spectrum”. A dreamy EP, packed with beautiful melodies, that I am enjoying today. Feels like perfect music for a rainy day. Just like today.
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It is 1991 and The Monk Bought Lunch released a 7″ that remains quite obscure.
I have a copy of this record, with it’s black and white sleeve, with a dog on the front cover. What sort of dog is it? Was this dog the pet of one of the band members? I wonder…
The information is scarce. The 7″ had three songs, “Love and Hate” on the A side and “Paint it White” and “The Sailors Tilted Hat” on the B side. The back of the sleeve tells us that the band was just a duo, Andy on music and vocals and Louise on vocals.
The other info we find on the sleeve is an address for Studio Adelaide. This is to contact the band. The band (and the studio) were based in Maldon, Essex. I’ve looked for this place in Google Maps. It doesn’t look like a studio, but a two floor house. It looks pretty and quiet. Seems far away from everything. The closest city looks to be Chelmsford.
On the label we get some more info. We know that the songs were produced by Andy Hayes and Grant Matthews at Studio Adelaide. Andy Hayes, that must be Andy from the band.
There are no compilation appearances.
I keep looking for any info. I read someone saying that the band was actually a solo project of Andy Hayes. So no Louise in the band? Andy would later form a band called Is She Weird? This band would release 2 7″s in the early 90s. The sound was a bit different though, less indiepop…
From what I understand the phrase The Monk bought lunch comes from the song “The Soft Parade” by The Doors.
The only other things I could find were some anecdotes, like that Andy pressed few copies of this record, that he gave a lot of them away to friends, and that he isn’t happy about the music on this record. Hmmm… oh well…
Not much more information on the web, but hopefully someone can enlighten us soon. Would be great to know any details about this obscure band that at some point a lot of indiepop collectors were looking for their sole record!
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