Dayflower: our Leicester friends have a new digital single out now! It is called “Picturefall” and it does sound lovely. The band, who released a superb 7″ on our label, continues to create dreamy popsongs. Would be nice to see them release a new record soon!
The Very Most / Starry Eyed Cadet: this is aa must have for all indiepop fans! A 7″ with 2 sons by two of the best American pop bands! That’s right, and top of it there’s a collaboration between bands, where Sally sings in the Very Most’s track “Starry Eyed Cadet” and Jeremy sings on “The Very Most” by Starry Eyed Cadet. Confusing? I don’t think so! It’s a nice concept split 7″ that I totally recommend!
Penguins & Martingales: a new EP by one of Sweden’s best kept pop secrets. The “What Might Have Been EP” has just been released digitally by the label Bibliotek. Here we find 4 songs that are influenced by quality pop acts like Prefab Sprout, Everything By the Girl or Edwyn Collins. If this was released by él Records it wouldn’t be a surprise.
Rush to Relax: this project hails from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is actually a Macedonian based there. Quite exotic? Damjan Manevski is the person behind the cool sounds behind the album “Misli” that Hidden Bay will be releasing soon on vinyl 12″. Influenced by Flying Nun and the artsy 80s pop of the Balkans, this is very interesting release I recommend checking out.
Comet Gain: a new release on the legendary London band’s Bandcamp. “Misfit Jukebox Vol 3: Museum of Snarling Flowers” is a collection of 3o songs! I don’t have much more to say, if you like Comet Gain and want to listen to outtakes, demos, different versions, this is definitely for you.
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If you are into the zodiac and horoscopes maybe you already knew about this, but I just found out what a rising sign is:
Your rising sign is one of the components of your birth chart, along with your moon sign and star sign. Essentially, it’s the sign that was rising on the Eastern horizon the moment you were born.
Anyhow…. just wait and listen to this band….
It is a wonderful discovery!! Wow! I really want to know more about Rising Sounds!!
It’s been a while since I have looked at the great Soundcloud account that is WokingSoundscene, and today I was there, just listening to some of their latest uploads…. and I see the song “Holiday” by this Aldershot band… and I am immediately blown over! This is pure indiepop magic!
If you like Dolly Mixture, The Avocados, and other girl-fronted pop bands, and you speed them up… yeah that would be a good description of the sound of Rising Signs.
The information available about them tells us that the band originally considered Man Made Soul as their name and that their debut gig was at the West End Centre in Aldershot supporting Drink Britain Dry (were they any good? now I am curious).
The band were part of the Battle for the Limelight at the Princes Hall in Aldershot in May 1988. Not sure if they won, or how close they were.
We also know that this song, “Holiday”, appeared on the band’s demo…
And that’s it. There’s a photo of a blonde girl singing and playing tambourine, wearing sunglasses. There’s a guitar player and a drummer too. I assume there was a bassist as well.
Oh! This same song was played at a radio show on Mixcloud called Lucky’s Lost Revivals (on his January 23rd 2022 show). There the presenter mentions a name, Bobby Cass (not sure of the spelling?), that he was part of the band, that he was his mate, but sadly passed away in 2021.
Also I think there’s lots of great stuff in his radio shows, so check them out, I was listening a few trying to track down the Rising Signs track, and was surprised by many cool sounding bands!
I’d love to listen to their whole demo tape. Anyone have any more details about them? Were they in other bands? I really want to find out more, interview them if possible!
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Rising Signs – Holiday
