Day 520

The Orange Peels: this is great news! The classic band fronted by Allen Clapp is back with a double album called “Celebrate the Moments of Your Life”. Yes, 17 songs, of great pop music! There is even a combo you can get that includes the double album and a 7″ remix single for about $28 plus shipping. Not bad! Also the release is very limited, just 100 copies. Good stuff!

Boyracer: another classic band that keeps releasing good music is Boyracer. A new album will be out on August 29 and it is titled “Assuaged”. 14 short and punchy songs, as usual, of their perfect brand of crashpop and on their own label Emotional Response. The album will be out on vinyl, on a first pressing of pink plastic. Exciting.

Flowertown: the San Francisco duo formed by Karina Gill and Mike Ramos is releasing an album called “Time Trials” on August 20th on the fine label Paisley Shirt Records. The record, which is being released on vinyl, will have 10 songs. Two of the songs are available to preview on Bandcamp, “Time Trials” and “The Way Back”.

SugarCandy Mountain: not much info about this shoegaze/dreampop band. But their album “Embers” has been available on Bandcamp since August 6th. Ten fine songs that seem to be available as digital-only. Looking at their Bandcamp I notice the band actually hails from Edinburgh and was originally active between 1991 and 1995 and has just started playing again together!

Lunatics on Pogosticks: oh! I haven’t checked this Melbourne indiepop band for a while and now that I do I discover they have a new album called “Whatver Gets You Through”! It doesn’t look like there is a physical release. But at least we can play on repeat the 12 songs here. Fun!

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A few days ago I got a nice recommendations from the Fanning Sessions blog, that extraordinaire blog that has let me discover so many obscure Irish bands.

The recommendation was a band called Good Sons. There is a post that dates from August 5th, 2021. So yeah, a brand new discovery. I am posting about it, even if it is repetitive as maybe two blogs may have more luck than one blog finding any more details about them. Who knows! It is good to share this info I think!

Many years ago there was a lot of friendship between bloggers, sharing and researching together. These days blogs are dying, we all know that. Very few exists. So I am happy to still have a little of those days long gone.

Anyhow, what do we know? It seems we don’t even know the name of the song! The guess is that the song is called “Deep Blue Sea”. Another guess is that it dates from 1990.

We know it is a demo because on the sound file shared, Dave Fanning says so. There is a tape cover that is shared. I wonder who made that tape. Someone recording the radio programme? I don’t know. Many bands that are unknown to me appear there. I think all of them are unknown!

Sadly I can’t find any other details. I am assuming the band is Irish of course. I read that Nick Jackson from Mirrors over Kiev had a band called Good Sons. But he was based in Manchester. So probably not. Anyone has a hint or any idea where to look!?

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Listen
Good Sons – Deep Blue Sea (title of the song not confirmed!)