Day 574

Scarlet Drops: Harriet Records, the legendary label is making a comeback. Their first release is a CD retrospective compilation of Ottawa’s Scarlet Drops! There are 24 songs in this record from singles, cassette releases and other unreleased tracks. Seems like a record no one should miss! Also I hope to get an interview with the band as I would like to know more about them!

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: two new songs by Glenn Donaldson’s project. The San Francisco based project keeps recording and recording new tracks that are perfect janglepop! The two latest ones are “I Only Ever Wanted to see You Fall” and a cover of Mazzy Star’s “Common Burn”.

EggS: a new 7″ by EggS will be released on Octobe 29 by Prefect Records from London! The 7″ EP titled “Greatest Hits” will include 3 tracks and so far we can preview one of them, “I Fell in Love”, which is really good!! I feel like I should a copy myself. Are the other 2 songs as good?

Semihelix: just a few days ago I was recommending a digital single by this Austin band. Today I am recommending their brand new album “Recoil” that is out now thanks to Mariel Recording Company on CD and vinyl LP. The album has 10 songs of super psych jangle pop!

Makthaverskan: and we end this with the superb news that the Gothenburg band is releasing a new album! It is going to be called “För Allting” and it is coming out on CD and vinyl on November 12! Great! Right now we can only preview one of the songs, “This Time” out of 12 that will be included in the record. Looking forward to this one for sure!

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Another band I tried to interview back in 2011 was Bunny Nightlight.

I was in touch with Marie Kare, vocalist and organ player in the band. The other member was Ben Barkley who played everything else. As far as I know they weren’t in any other bands.

They only released one record. A CDR on Shelflife Records back in 2003. It was an EP titled “Hail”. This EP was actually part of a CD-R series on Shelflife Records and this was the eight release in this series, hencee the catalog number CD-R Series #008. Now I am thinking it may be a good idea to research now many of the bands in these series.

This release was very limited, just 100 hand-numbered copies. It included four songs, “Mmm Hmm”, “Boo Hoo”, “So Bored” and “Stalking Song”. Their music was wonderful sweet bedroom-pop. Hard to come by to such pop perfection these days!

On this record Cynthia Ford sang backing vocals.

A few things I learned while researching for the interview:
– Ben had recorded a cassette full of songs for Marie to sing. That’s how the band started
– Marie hails from Borger, Texas. Where is that? It looks like in the middle of nowhere!
– Bunny Nightlife was born and was based in San Francisco, California
– Marie runs a cool blog called Marie the Bee. A lot about video gaming here!
– Their computer died and all of their Bunny Nightlife recordings, even unreleased tracks were lost

On the web there are a few mentions to the band, all of them raving their music. Erasing Clouds, an influential blog in the 2000s, recommended their EP. Indiepop.it, another legendary site, reviewed all CDR series on Shelflife. Here it mentions that the band hailed from Sacramento. Now I am confused! Also it mentions that the name of the band is taken from a Looney Tunes product, a lamp!

And lastly I find a Soudncloud that Marie Kare setup 6 months ago. This is a good find I think. After losing touch with them it is lovely to see that they still remember their music! They have uploaded a song not included in their EP. It is a cover of Frank & Nancy Sinatra’s duet “Something Stupid“.

And lastly, there is a song called “Song 3” that is on an EP called “We Love You, Jerry” that was put together in 2018 on Bandcamp. On this compilation EP that included The Rosebuds, Dusty Miller, Sad Numbers, Soul Brothers, and Rocketship. Bunny Nightlight appears with the aforementioned song. It seems it was only a digital release.

And that’s it. I am going back to many bands I tried to interview and for a reason or another I didn’t get answers back. I am just trying to write about them as I really liked them in the first place and deserved attention. An interview would have been better, more details, but this is not bad, is it?

Who remembers Bunny Nightlight?

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Listen
Bunny Nightlight – Mmm Hmm