The Photocopies: and one more by the Michigan band! You wonder where Sean Turner finds time to write and record songs. I am quite jealous as I have very very little time these days. Well, The Photocopies has written three Christmas songs for an EP titled “Cheer Up, It’s Christmas”. Also included is a version of the traditional song “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”.

The Hannah Barberas: more Christmas songs! It is the season for sure. Now a limited 7″ by the British band The Hannah Barberas. This new 7″, limited to 50 copies, will include just 2 songs. A third song is available as a bonus download. The record is coming out on December 16, and I think this is a must for all of us that love some Christmas-tinged indiepop songs!

Boyracer: the legendary band is also back with Christmas songs! Two songs, “Magic to me” and “What Kind of Christmas Do You Want?” are available as a digital single, A side and B side. I think we have enough for a good festive playlist, right?

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize: and here is an album worth of indiepop carols! Charlie Darling shares with us 16 songs, a collection of him revisiting Christmas songs from his back catalogue. All re-recorded, re-mixed, and some re-written. Really lovely effort!

Comet Gain: 4 new songs by Comet Gain plus versions of old songs by David Christian in this collection titled “Heavy Necklace”. This 13 song album is up now on Comet Gain’s Bandcamp and as usual it is a must listen.

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Another find thanks to stoneeyedkiller’s Youtube account. It is a great resource to find obscure bands, I highly recommend checking it out now and then as it is updated much more often than this blog!

I am here just trying to give more context to the bands and songs he posts. See if there are more details to share. I hope that’s the case with this 90s indiepop band from Worcestershire called SWISS.

There is a trove of their songs on Soundcloud. These were uploaded 7 years ago and there’s very little information about them. The songs uploaded are “Symphony”, “Freefall”, “Big Surprise”, “Deeper”, “Marigold Man”, “People and Places”, “Say it Like You Do”, “Freakshow”, “Crease” and “Coming Down”.

Were these demos? There’s enough for an album here…

The band’s name makes it difficult to google them. The one detail that I can add is that there’s a photo on Soundcloud that shows the band was formed by 3 guys. One of them was called Craig I believe, sadly it seems Craig passed away some time ago.

So yeah, I am hoping for some details, hoping for anyone that remembers them to share some more info and hopefully learn the story of the band.

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Listen
SWISS – Big Surprise