Day 609
Heavenly: there are two John Peel Sessions being released on double 7″ vinyl by Precious Recordings! This is great great news! The dates from these sessions are from April 14, 1991, and the other one is from September 7, 1994. Needless to say these are essential records, that no one should miss. I believe the records are out on January 14, so pre-order now!
Jetstream Pony: another essential record for 2021 is the new mini-album by these superb indiepoppers from the UK! Their new album “Misplaced Words” is coming out on November 26 on Shelflife Records who seem to be on a roll this year. I wonder if I will miss this record, as it seems very few copies are left, and it doesn’t make any sense for me to order now as I will be out of town when it is released… hopefully when I’m back I’ll find a copy… CD is fine too.
Massage: and another great record coming up is Massage’s “Lane Lines” which is going to be out on black vinyl on December 1. This one is not that difficult to get a copy I think, 1000 copies pressed, which I thank! You can see I am nervous of missing out many records… so this one seems I’ll be able to get it when I am back. 6 songs, and one that we can preview right now, “In Gray & Blue (Single version)”.
Tallies: a new digital single by this Canadian band is out now. It’s been a while since I’ve heard from them so I am happy to see they are still making music. The new single is called “No Dreams of Fayres” and is being released by Hand Drawn Dracula, a Toronto label.
Crabber: three years after the debut album “Bluesbusters” the German band is releasing their second album “Who Let the Ducks Out?” on the fine Jigsaw Records. The album is out now on CD and includes 10 songs of clever pop!
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After writing about Mrs. Kipling I thought it made a lot of sense to look into other not that well known bands that were on Sunday Records, the fine label from Illinois that our friend Albert ran back in the 90s and that he revived a few years ago with some great releases!
Sundress only released one 7″ single. As mentioned it came out Sunday in 1993. It had the catalog number SUNDAY 031. Three songs were on this record. They were “Give Your Heart Another Day” and “Waiting” on the A side and “Gone” on the B side. The band was formed just by Sarah Brown and Mark D. Sarah writing all of the songs.
Sarah of course is well known for indiepop fans having been in classic bands like Sarah Goes Shopping or the Twa Toots. I have to write about both of these bands soon. I am surprised I haven’t written yet about Sarah Goes Shopping especially but I will make up for it. I have to!
Mark David Randall is also well known for indiepop. He was on our beloved The Fat Tulips.
Sundress recorded at least one more song called “Changing Colours” that appeared on the CD compilations “Sunny Sunday Smile” (SUNDAY 640) from 1993 and on “A Sunday Records Compilation” double CDR (SUNDAY 1004) from 2019.
The other compilation appearance we know of them is on the 2000 CD compilation “Rolling Meadows Songs About Our Past Vol. 2” (SUNDAY 850) with the song “Gone”.
Looking on the web I find that my friend Alex from 7iete Pulgadas has dedicated some words to them. Of course! He always does. He wrote about them many years ago, in 2008. He mentions that I had written about them… but it was on my old blog… I haven’t written about them on this blog. Yeah, now I know why the feeling of deja vu writing these lines.
Other blog that wrote about them is Manolo’s 360 de Separación. Again no details about the band that we don’t know, like if they released unreleased records, but it is good to know he loved this band. I trust his taste 100% as Manolo Soleado knows his indiepop! His post is from 2006. On the comment section I see a linkback from my old blog. Wow. Those were the days! Now I feel like an island when it comes to indiepop blogs.
The last blog I see that wrote about them is also Spanish. This time it is a post from 2006 on Lito Music. What happened to Lito? I haven’t heard or known about him for ages. Again no more details but Lito shows his love for their music.
Sadly this is all I could find about them. I guess it was a one-off collaboration, but one wonders if there were more recordings. What made Mark and Sarah collaborate? Was there plans for more releases? Did they ever play any gigs together? Questions that would be nice to know answers… in the meantime, I want to remember this wonderful single and Sundress. And ask out there, who remembers them? Who has any more info about them?
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Listen
Sundress – Waiting
