We are getting closer to the new Cloudberry release. This is very exciting times. As mentioned it will have more than 3 songs. By a Swedish band. From Stockholm. No one has guessed yet. But that’s ok. I will announce soon I hope. Mastering is almost done, artwork is almost done. Because we are on October it seems we will have to release early next year.

The Quiet Method: this is a great discovery. I wasn’t aware of Manchester-based Dan Whiteley’s project The Quiet Method even though he released a few songs about a year ago. His latest single “A Life in Pictures” caught my attention immediately. It sounds great, has that classic jangle pop sound that we all love.

Model Shop: now we head to Seattle to discover a new band. Thist rio formed by Kevin, Jen and Ethan, is releasing their debut album “Love Interest” on November 21. It is on vinyl. Now, for those of you who live under a rock, this band features two ex-Maths and Physics Club members! Yeah, Kevin and Ethan were on the beloved band. You now can preview two songs from the 10 tracks that make up the album. And what songs they are! I totally recommend this.

Cozy Slippers: we stay in Seattle and we check on another band we like a lot, Cozy Slippers. The trio is back with a CD version and a vinyl version. The CD will be out thanks to Subjangle and the vinyl will be out on Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. This self-titled album includes 12 songs, all of which are already available to listen.

Motifs: yeah I thought it was the Australian band when I saw a friend post about them. How I miss The Motifs. But no, this Motifs hail from Singapore and have been around since 2019. Their latest single is a wonderful dreampop track, a gorgeous one, called “Lovelost” that I think deserves our attention.

Ultracrush: and to end this week I want to share “Bruise” the latest single by this lovely sounding pop band from Sydney, Australia. Not much more to say, there’s little info about the band or song on Bandcamp, but how nice it sounds.

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Thanks to stoneeyedkiller’s Youtube channel I became aware of a German band from the late 80s called The Combine.

I was to find 10 of their songs on Soundcloud. And I really enjoyed them!

The band describes themselves as a mod beat band. They hailed from Munich and were active between 1987 and 1991.

It was a three piece formed by Markus Holzach as songwriter, vocals and guitars, Andreas Lodahl on backing vocals and bass and Henrik Ferstl on drums and percussion.

The 10 songs are “Call it a Day SAE”, “Come to Light”, “Engerland”, “It’s Good Bye”, “Jet Set”, “Lead Me Out”, “Lost in Blue”, “Mayday”, “The Night” and “You Don’t Know Me at All (early Aromatics version)”.

There’s not much info about each song, but we do see some more details on the last song. It seems it is not a The Combine song. Not sure then why it was put together with the rest. In any case The Aromatics featured the three members of The Combine plus Dieter Birkeneder (songwriter, vocalist and bassist). The Aromatics were the band before The Combine and were around from 1985 to 1987.

Markus was also in other bands including The Fam, Spacemueller and Mythek.

And that’s all I could find about this band. Seems there were no releases. Most probably the songs on Soundcloud come from demo tapes.

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Listen
The Combine – Come to Light