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Last post until… July 22. I’m going on holidays after 3 years… Also be aware that for the label, all orders that are placed starting today until the 22nd will be posted on July 23rd. Thanks again!
See you soon!
Detergente Líquido: Alberto Rodway, Laura Arias, Ernesto Rodríguez, Fran Muñoz and Félix García are behind this Spanish band that released last June a cassette album called “Contumacia en Primavera” on the very good Japanese indiepop label Galaxy Train. The first pressing of this tape is still available. The tape has 11 songs and comes with a lyric sheet in Spanish and English as well as band and label stickers.
Desario: the newest release on Sunday Records is Desario’s “Signal and Noise”. This 9 song album is coming out on July 15 on both CD and vinyl. The band from Sacramento, California, know how to make some superb dreampop as we can see on the two songs available to preview, “Strange Shapes” and “Things We Left Behind”.
El Vacío de Romeo: another Spanish band, this time from Seville. The duo formed by Francisco Naranjo and Diego Ruiz has just released “Ñ Inglesa”, a 5 song-EP. The bio tells us that the duo has been making music since the late 80s, but I must say I’ve never heard about this band before.
Space Daze: so Jigsaw Records is releasing a CD compilation of all the previous online releases by the ex-Seapony project Space Daze. This CD includes 34 songs! Wow, this is very well worth getting. The compilation is titled “Prior to Being” and is actually the 2nd compilation of digital releases by the band.
Louïse Papier: and lastly, a band from France. Makes sense, I am traveling there later tonight. But this band hails from Brest. I won’t be near that city. I hope to visit one day of course. Louïse Papier is formed by Blanche Leblond and Victor Gobbé and their first release is “Les Idées Roses” and sounds great. It is a synth-pop EP, with clear influences of the 80s. My favourite song is the title song.
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Another Youtube account that has some treasures. That is the account of a UK musician called Ian Matthews.
There he has uploaded two “videos”. One is for their song “Trousers”, a studio version recorded back in the 80s and the other is a gig!
The “Trousers” song has been put together over a live performance at The Cartoon in Croydon in 1988. Did the band hail from this area in the South of London?
The live gig is also from that same venue, The Cartoon. Also from 1988. There the band played 7 songs, “Please”, “Promises”, “Throw Your Love Away…”, “Take Me Away”, “Trousers”, “She’s So Cool” and “Northern Souls”.
On this last link we get the names of the band members, Ian Matthews on guitar and vocals, Mick Taylor on guitar, Greg Jones on bass and John McCarthy on drums.
Later on Ian would be in a band called Hunkydory! in the early 90s and more recently on a project called Promis & Matthews where he collaborated with Jose Promis.
I was also curious about The Cartoon. I found an article about it on a website called Closed Pubs. The pub closed in 2006 and was located in West Croydon on a street called London Road.
Not much more on this band, but hopefully we can hear more studio versions of their songs. “Trousers” is a superb jangle pop song!
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GIFT – Trousers
