Field School: Olympia, Washington. A great college town for music. “It’s Only Everything EP” was released back in January on cassette. This was the first release ever as far as I know by this pop band. The EP had 5 songs and it quickly sold out. Not sure how many copies were made. I have just discovered them. I came late, but as I am only catching up with releases of the past 5 months, I think it is worth for me telling you about them. They say they make jangly guitar pop. I thought it was a bit fuzzier than jangly, but hey, it doesn’t matter. It has a good sound.
No Suits on Miami: You know I love this band and would have loved to release a record by them. Now they are on Shelflife Records who know who to bring to their label. With them they will release “Nothing Ever Happens” a superb 10 song album! Can’t wait for this record to be out, a true favourite band of mine for the last few years.
Flying Fish Cove: the Seattle indiepop duo last release was a digital single. It came out about a month ago and again, just listening this for the first time! Sorry if this is old for you. It is brand brand new for me! “Tinsel Tavern” is a great song. As always a band to follow!
The Kensingtons: great to hear new songs by the pop craftsmen that are The Kensingtons! Their newest single is called “How Was I to Know?” and was released as digital-only about a month ago too.
The Happy Somethings: and I end up this roundup with this English combo that I have reviewed many times in the past. They also have a digital single called “Stand Together Song” and previously an EP ccalled “Tall Stories Long Grass” which are worth listening! Fun pop songs!
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Another good find on Soundcloud. It seems this is the place for 80s bands to upload their old demos.
The account is owned by Dave Hindle who was part of a band called Wolf Cries Boy in the UK. Probably based in Rotherham, that’s the city that appears on the account, but of course, Dave could have moved afterwards.
Here we find many songs by different projects of Dave. The one I am interested in is Wolf Cries Boy and he has four songs for this band: “Give Me Somewhere”, “The Last Time”, “Silver Hand” and “Eyes of a Child”.
From the photo that has been uploaded we see that the band was formed by four guys. Which one is Dave? What are the names of the other members?
We also know that the songs were recorded at The Darnall Music Factory between 1987 and 1988. We don’t have more info about these early demos sadly.
One important piece of information I find is that the band would later change names to Skyfire. Probably around in 1990.
Sadly that’s all I could find online. Anyone that has any more details, please let us know. Would be great to find out what happened to them!
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