Still being very difficult to organize myself and find time to review new bands. Let’s see if by Monday I can do it.
Alfie news. Still no outlets for Europe. But in Brazil there will be copies at Locomotiva Discos in Sao Paulo. They are also getting copies of the Macguffins and Baby Lemonade compilations.
For US fans you can find the record at the best mailorder there is for indiepop, Jigsaw Records.
And that’s it. CDs are doing well. I will add the CDs to Bandcamp, see if those Bandcamp Fridays work for Cloudberry too.
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I return to the excellent “Everything But the Boys and the Girl” CDR compilation that Happy Extreme! put out in 2019. I wrote a bit about this compilation when I wrote about the band The Boy’s Short Hair on the blog.
The CDR is not for sale and came along a book titled “1986-1991” that is worth looking for even if you don’t understand Japanese. Right, forgot to say this was a Japanese release!
On this compilation there are many amazing bands I had never heard in my life and you wonder where they come from. There is no information!
So in the case of the band that I present you today, Forest Stroll, again I know absolutely nothing. That’s why I am writing about them, hoping to find out more details. Maybe some of you know something, even as little as where they where from. Anything will help.
The song I heard by them is the one included in the comp. It is called “Behind the Tree” and it is really amazing. It has this great female vocals, this classic 80s guitars, a bit like Marine Girls, and then some male vocals on the chorus. Thinking too of Grab Grab the Haddock. Anyhow, it is fantastic.
I wonder if the band hailed from Japan, though from the accents I’d like to thing they were British, but I have no idea. So yes, help me please!
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