Good morning. Or good afternoon? Or good night? I hope readers all over the world are still checking the blog now and then. There is not much news on the Cloudberry side, just working on a couple of future releases, finalizing the tracklists and artwork, so I hope soon Ill be announcing something. In the meantime, I keep finding good music to share. Hope you enjoy it.
Airport: what a lovely discovery. Airport are a Portland, Oregon, band and they have a bunch of songs on their Bandcamp but I’m checking their latest album “Canary Island Breakfast” which was released this past September 15th on tape. There are 10 songs of jangle pop with the great vocals by Rachel Zakrasek. Joining here are Vincent Ballowe, Jake Pettit and Mike Artinian. Pretty pretty good.
Fritz: “Summer Holiday” is the latest track by this Newcastle, Australia, band and it sounds brilliant! You know I am sucker for jangly pop and female vocals, upbeat melodies and catchy and smart lyrics. Everything is in here. It is really cool that behind this song there is just one person, a girl, called Tilly Murphy. So talented! I will keep an eye on her future releases!
The Mayfields: I just found out that the classic English band will be releasing a compilation on Firestation Records in the near future and that’s great news. I had been hoping such. a compilation for a long time, even having offered some of the members to do one, but I suppose releasing on vinyl is a better opportunity for bands. And that’s totally fine. The CD and vinyl compilation is titled “Compact & Bijou” and pre-orders start on October 5th. It includes 16 tracks.
Goosebumps – 25 Years of Marina: the classic German label Marina who I don’t think is as active as it used to be is putting together a special release to celebrate their 25 anniversary. 2 CDs or 3 LPS, whatever format you choose, will include 40 tracks – including many unreleased and rare, plus more than 100 photographs from their archive. Check the teaser on the link.
Mitimitis: I have recommended this Chilean band before, and I’m so happy to see that they have 3 new songs! Again, lo-fi and amateur, twee as it can be, sounding like an 80s tape, like a Corrupt Postman or Positively Teenage band, in Spanish though. Their latest EP is called “Campos de Amberries por Siempre” and it is made available by Gemelo Parásito on the web. I hope some physical format happens for these guys. Good stuff!
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Was looking for the meaning of pinhole burns. According to someone on the internet they are holes caused by bits of smouldering tobacco or dope falling from a joint and burning holes in a shirt. That kind of makes sense. But why a German band would name themselves Rosecoloured Pinholeburns?
I discovered this very obscure band through one of the persons who knows the most about indiepop, Heinz from Hamburg. He uploads all the time true gems to his Youtube channel and travels to every good pop festival there is. Thanks to his archivist work I’ve discovered a trove of great indiepop, much of it coming from obscure tapes from the past decades. It is in one of these tapes, “Wegweiser Durch’s Eiswürfelland”, which has been featured a bit on the blog, that the band released their only two songs as far as I know. Then they were lost to obscurity.
It doesn’t have to be that way of course. Maybe they get in touch with me on the blog and we can do an interview and find out more. That’d be fantastic. Or even better they get to be part of the new obscure German indiepop compilation I heard the Firestation Records guys are working on. That’d be ace too. Don’t you think?
The compilation name translates roughly as “By the Ice Country’s signpost” or something like that. It is not totally a strange name if you consider the label that put it out was Eiswürfel Tonträger (EIS-2). That is the ice cube label kind of. This label was put together by the people behind the band Die Busfahrer who have also been interviewed on the blog. So there are connections all over the place.
The tape was released in 1992 and included 20 songs. 11 on the A side and 9 on the B side. The Rosecoloured Pinholeburns included two songs on the A side. The first appears as the A4 and was “Kick into his Face”, while the second was the A10, “Act of Revenge”. On this compilation they appear alongside superb bands like Friends Ahoi, Die Blinzelbeeren, Schade Schokolade and more, all of them featured on the blog too. Hey, maybe we are running out of bands? Everyone seems to be on the blog!
There is not much more information about them. The only detail that might prove handy is that both songs are credited to Schlüchtern. Who is he? Or she? And what is the first name?
I’m not sure. What does exist is a place called Schlüchtern in Hesse, Germany. It is a town of about 16,000 people. Just in the middle of Germany. It would be odd that the songs are credited to a town, no? I’m quite sure though that the band hailed from that area though. This is quite the mystery.
Of course, there is nothing at all written about the band nor any mentions. Nothing. At all. So now is the moment for my German friends to help me. Who were these punky pop people behind the Rosecoloured Pinholeburns?
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