Another week. I have to say I will save Cloudberry news for later in the week. Today I want to go straight to some new finds I’ve stumbled upon!

Los Bonsais: “Hinoki” is the name of the album of Los Bonsais new album that will be released on February 15th on Elefant Records. To promote it the band has put together a lovely video for the song “¡No Quiero Salir!”.  As usual with them it is a great track. I can’t wait to listen to the whole album, to have it at home, and play it over and over. And I’m also crossing my fingers that when I go to Asturias (it seems that will happen in July) I can catch them live!

The Pariahs: this terrific jangle pop band from Germany that I once interviewed will be included in The Sound of Leamington Spa German Edition that Firestation is releasing on February 22nd. Because of this the label has shared on Soundcloud the great track “Going Down Niagara Falls”. This is a record no one should miss.

The Golden Rail: “Sometimes When” is the latest release by the all-star Melbourne band. 10 songs of terrific jangle pop that is now available on CD digipak on the label’s own Candlestick Records label. This one you shouldn’t miss!

Tsuchiyamakoto: “Amaoto Memo” is the name of the latest effort by this Tokyo band. It is a 9 song album of lovely J-pop with all the right ingredients, chiming guitars, sweet melodies, and lyrics that are a mystery to me but sound just right. I want to guess that this project is a one man band fronted by a Makoto Tsuchiya. Is that a good guess?

Tennis Club: in the past I had featured this Missouri band. The song I reviewed was in English. Well now they have a cool sounding song in Spanish called “Mexico City (Rich Girls)” that is out as a digital single on the Mexican label Stupid Decisions. Good stuff!

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Another fine sounding Irish band I discovered through the superb blog Fanning Sessions was The Summerhouse. There I was able to find one track, “The Prize”, which was a great guitar pop song. This song wasn’t included in their one and only record they put out, but it was a demo that at some point Dave Fanning played in his show. Were there any other songs recorded at the same time as this demo? Probably, I mean, that’s usually the case. Will I have the chance to listen to it? I hope so.

I still haven’t heard the tracks on their 7″. They were two. On the A side there was “Until the Light Comes”, and on the AA side there was “Colour”. It seems that it was a self-release as the label is also called Summerhouse. The catalog number is L18306/18307… it is not very creative I must say. The songs were recorded at The Recording Co. and Aigle Studios. The producer was Donal Lunny, an Irish folk musician with lots of releases under his belt, and the engineer was Johnny Byrne who had been in bands like the Zen Alligators and that sadly passed away in 1997 in New York where he was also working as an engineer.

The 7″ had some matrix runouts, the A side had “Summerhouse” and on the AA side they wanted to be funny and wrote “Smokehouse”.

On Discogs there is a scan of the back of the sleeve. I can see that:
Alan Redmond – vocals, acoustic guitar
Kieran McEvoy – lead guitar
Steven Dempsey – keyboards
Tom Rooney – drums
Jean-Marc Soule – bass

The sleeve design is credited to the bassist, Jean-Marc. He was from Paris, France, by the way. How do I know that? Well, there is a live performance of the band on Youtube, at the Borderline tv programme, on its 1987 competition. On it they play the song “Colour”.

The band appeared on the “Comet EP One” 12″ comp that I have mentioned in the past on the blog. That’s how I was aware of them really. I had written about this compilation on posts about Cypress, Mine!, Cliff Edge Panic and lately on the Slowest Clock. The comp was released by Comet Records (COME1T) in 1986. The song The Summerhouse contributed was “Everything I Wanted”.

Irishrock.org this time doesn’t have much info on them. Just that Kieran McEvoy played before in Redeemer and also in the band Civilians.

That’s all there is on the web. It is odd. It is a band that appeared on TV. But seems as if not many people remember them. I would love to listen to the single. To the song on the compilation too. If there are more demos, that too of course. Did they play in the UK perhaps? Who remembers them?

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Listen
The Summerhouse – The Prize