Day 464

Olivia’s World: “Debutante” is the first single off the band’s new EP “Tuff 2B Tender” which is out now by the veritable Lost Sound Tapes. Alicia’s band has been a favourite of the blog, as were her previous bands!, and it is great to be treated to this lovely video. Don’t miss it!

Evergreen Days: “Essential // The Sound of…” is the retrospective compilation we’ve all been wanting by Emelie Berg’s solo project, the wonderful Evergreen Days from Sweden! This compilation has been put together by My Secret Garden Recordings and includes 14 tracks! More than I expected. I would love to interview Emelie, I will try to do that soon! Love this band and as the name of the compilation tells you, it is essential. Pre-orders for the CD version are up!

Vocal Age: this is an oldie but a new discovery! Hailing from Stockholm, Vocal Age only put together an EP called “What If” which is up on Bandcamp. I haven’t heard this band before but sounds great! It dates from 2015 and I wonder how come it flew under our radar. The songs are really good, jangly, fun, dreamy, with female/male vocals. Amazing really. If I had heard this in 2015 I would have been more than interested to put it out!

Stutter Steps: this project by Ben Harrison, with the help from Anthony LaMarca, Phil Jacoby and Cindy Yogmas, has released a very nice album calleed “Reeling” in 2020. It is out now on vinyl and includes 12 songs. The Pittsburgh based band crafts some introspective and well-crafted pop songs. Worth a listen for sure.

Lightning Love: now we head to Ypsilanti, Michigan. I always liked that city’s name. Anyhow, that’s where Lightning Love are from. This trio are re-releasing their 2008 album “November Birthday” on July 30th on vinyl and CD! You can  two of the tracks as of now, “Everyone I Know”, “Friends” and “Good Time”. If you like upbeat pop definitely check out, especially “Everyone I Know” which is a bonafide pop single!

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This find comes from the Youtube channel stoneeyedkiller, a great resource for obscure indiepop!

I had never heard about this band nor the compilation “Too Nice for Words”. It is in this compilation that the song “God’s Shelf”, the one shared in the Youtube channel, appears.

I think it won’t surprise anyone if I can’t find much more information about the band. But I am going to try my best. Maybe there’s something somewhere?

Discogs has nothing about them. But suddenly I find something, on the Hull Music Archive website. It is an entry of this compilation. Great! Immediately we find out that it was released in 1993 and included 18 different bands. Were they all from the Hull area? Were they all indiepop? I guess that is something we should try to find out eventually. Bow Jangles’ song appears on the B side, it is the 6th song on that side.

There is an interesting tidbit here. It mentions that this tape was compiled by the promoter and musician Chris Warkup. This was actually the fifth of a series of tape compilations he put together in the early 90s.

I keep digging.

And I find that the band had more songs. They released at least two demo tapes that same year, 1993. The first one included the songs “Let it Go”, “Get Out of Bed” and “Coming on Strong”. The second tape had “Lost Ego”, “God’s Shelf”, “Pick Yourself Up” and “A World on Focus”. Okay, now we know 7 songs. I want to listen to them!

I think though these will be all of the details I will find today. It’s not great, but it is not as bad as I thought it would be. It’d be great to find some band members names.

Hopefully someone remembers them. Maybe a reader from Hull. It’d be great to learn more info about them!

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Listen
Bow Jangles – God’s Shelf