Day 597
Le Pain: we start with a digital single from Los Angeles, California. The band Le Pain has just released “Obvious to You”, a light, sweet, bright, song. The vocals by Olivia Babuka Black are dreamlike and that is one of the biggest strengths of the band. But the guitars and melodies are ace too. This is a good band for sure.
Little Cinema: now here’s an album, “Safety”, by this band that lives between Brooklyn and Austin (even though they list themselves from San Jose, California). This new album of 10 tracks is the sequel to their 2014 album “Adventure”. At the moment we can preview four tracks that I really enjoyed. The album is out digitally on November 5.
The Greengrocers: what caught my attention was the artwork they were using… copying the Shop Assistants! So I had a quick listen to their first release, “Single”, which includes two songs, “Rotten Apple’s” and a cover of the Shoppies’ “Fixed Grin”. Fun pop from Oakland, California!
NewDad: from Galway, Ireland. An easy-going superb pop song here. It is called “Ladybird” and it has that trademark sound of the last few years, with dreamy reverb guitars, some fuzzy guitars thrown there in good measure, female vocals, that work so well. Good stuff.
Casino Garden: and lastly we head to Wuppertal, Germany. There I discover this band formed by Matthias Wiercinsky and Oliver Kroker who on November 13 will be releasing “Oliver Oliver”, their new album. We can preview two tracks now, “You” and “Never Change”. Both are good, but I like best the latter, a lo-fi pop song with great hooks!
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This is a very obscure one.
So I assume there won’t be much information to find online. But I am hoping some of you may be able to help me.
I think The Boy’s Short Hair is a Japanese band. Probably end of 80s or early 90s. I only know one song, “Around the World”. This song was included in a very rare compilation called “Everything but the Boys and the Girl”.
I have a CDR copy of this compilation. As far as I know the compilation was not even available for sale. It was released by the legendary Happy Extreme! who had put two flexis in the late 80s, flexis with legendary Japanese bands. These two flexis had come along the Eigoku Ongaku magazine in 1988 and 1989.
So yeah, whoever compiled this compilation knew what they were doing. It is really excellent and there are lots of obscure bands worth discovering.
It has catalog number SFC 003 and includes some well known bands as well. We find The McTells, Choo Choo Train or The Rain. There is Penny Arcade who I interviewed. There is The Bachelors who had a release not so long ago on Blue-Very and who I’d love to interview. And there is the Philips. I wrote about them too but haven’t been in touch.
The other bands on this compilation are unknown to me. Like Shink Carnation, Somerset Club Boy, Knickerbocker Holiday, Forest Stroll, The London Times and more.
The Boy’s Short Hair caught my attention immediately. It is worth noting that this CD came with the book “1986-1991”. I have a copy of the book that was put out by DU Books in Japan. Sadly my copy didn’t come with CD. But a friend was kind enough to burn it for me!
Anyhow. That’s all I can say about this band. They sound great to me. So yeah, any information that anyone has, let me know!
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