Day 611. Cloudberry goes on vacation starting today. Will try to keep the blog updated but the on the label front I won’t be fulfilling orders until February. Will have a new release then too. I’ll share the news on January!

Thee Terrible Hildas: “Get Surfing!” is the name of this 3-song EP I just discovered on Bandcamp. And it is really good! Released digitally by Kabukikore from New York you end up wanting a physical record for this song. This project seems to be a global project, formed by people from all places including Seattle, Leicester, Krokstadelva (Norway) and Basingstoke. Now, The Chesterfields used to have artwork done by The Terrrible Hildas. Is there a connection there?

The Crooner: Make Me Happy just posted the song “Dew Goddess” by The Crooner. Listening to this track is great. It is perfect for a rainy, cold, day like today. Soothing. Mellow. You understand why The Crooner is one of the best bands ever to come from Athens, Greece.

Mañana el Espacio: the Caracas indiepop band, possibly the only indiepop band in Venezuela (?), has put out a new digital single. Titled “Celebran por Nosotros” which means they celebrate for us, is a fine slice of guitar driven pop. When is this band releasing a record? I feel they have enough songs by now!

The No-Yeahs: a new song from this wonderful project by girlonbus! This is great news. This new track “Plaintive Missive” is amazing, a new favourite for me. Sounds like The Tidy Ups, no? Wow. A bit like Free Loan Investments too. Or The Motifs? This is very very good. I hope it gets a proper release. On top if it all there’s a video for this song too!

Happy Pills:  “Half Asleep” is the new single by this favourite Japanese band of mine. The Fukuoka bedroom-project has been in my radar for so long, always recommending them on my blog. This new song is one of his best, so don’t miss it out!

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I’ve been meaning to write this post for years. I always wondered about the Printing House, who, as far as I know, only released one song back in 2005.

The song was called “The Treachery” and it is so good. I knew the person behind this song was Hewson Chen, who as of late is in the NYC band Lake Ruth. And no, sadly, I have never seen them or meet them, which is kind of odd and sad as I also live in NYC. Just bad timing when they played gigs I guess… bad timing for me…

In any case this project was back in the day. And it does sound different to Lake Ruth. I guess it is a bit closer to another superb band he was in, Vitesse. Oh, I’d love to write about Vitesse too. I like their albums a lot. But this is a good introduction to his music I think.

“The Treachery” was the opening track on a compilation called “The Speed By Which We Fall”  (RR02) that was released by Rollerderby Records. This was a US label that released records by Experimental Aircraft, Rachel Goldstar and licensed South Ambulance’s self-titled album from Labrador.

On this compilation the band appears next to other fine bands including Air Formation, Azalia Snail, Flowchart and Vitesse.

On the compilation there are credits for “The Treachery”. So we know there were two more members in this band, Jenna Alden and Michael Tepper. Jenna had been in The Middletown Creative Orchestra while Discogs doesn’t list any other bands for Michael.

Other bands that Hewson was in include the amazing Alsace Lorraine (I met one of their members once, back in 2007, he told me he was an undertaker… cool!) and The New Lines.

Sadly there is no more info on the web. The song is fantastic, so I hope we learn more details eventually… who knows, maybe they played live? maybe there are more recordings?

Edit: 12/10/2021. Well, my friend David shared with me another song called “Hidden Cities” that seems to be unreleased and dating from sometime around 2005. Not sure where he got it! Anyone knows any info about it?

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Printing House – The Treachery