Friday…. great the weekend starts now. It’s been a good week for the label as I’ve been getting assets and confirmations by many Australian bands. I am having trouble contacting 3 of them and 1 is not being easy as the recordings are own by a big label. So we’ll see. As soon as there are more news I’ll let you know. Also I will start looking for a 7″ release for sometime this year. Any tips about bands that fit in the Cloudberry roster would be appreciated.

The Age of Colored Lizards: “I’ll Be Waiting” is the brand new song by this Oslo, Norway, band that have been featured many times in the blog. So it is worth checking out of course. The noise-pop trio is formed by Christian Dam, Cato Holmen and Fredrik Ness Sevendal.

Artista Fiera: their song “Lo Consigo” sounds great. I found it in the El Genio Equivocado, a label based in Barcelona. I know little about the band but it doesn’t matter for me to enjoin this fuzzy song with girl vocals. Good stuff.

Feather Shuttles Forever: time for some Jpop! The last few weeks I’ve stumbled upon bands that sound as if they were from the Japanese noughties, Shibuya-kei, and all that. So that’s quite cool. Now I find this band on the Local Visions label Bandcamp, with its 8 song album. The band is formed by Hikaru Yamada and Mukuchi.

Los Ships: the superb band that our friend Simon from The Kites fronts these days are releasing a CDR EP with the South African label Subjangle. This label based in Pretoria have these 4 song-EPs already available to order on their website. The songs are the same as the digital EP the band put out last June, so we have “Best Laid Plans”, “Half Life”, “Rose Sings the Big Tunes” and “Here’s What You Could Have Won”, but this time in physical format. And that is a very very good thing!

Tight Knit: our friend Brogues from Glasgow, who runs the Not Unloved blog and label, is putting out his 3rd record this February. This new record will feature the Australian band Tight Knit with two of their songs: “Too Hot” and “Want You”. Both of these songs are available to stream in the band’s Bandcamp to check them out. There’s more info on the release here.

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Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together. The game is based on the noun phrase word association, meaning “stimulation of an associative pattern by a word” or “the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation.”

I don’t have a photo nor any information about this band. This may prove as one of the most difficult cases for the indiepop detectives out there. I will tell you what I know, maybe with these hints you’ll be able to solve this case.

– There was a 7″ released by Word Association. Because of the sound of it, it seems to be from the 80s.

– One of the songs, I believe it is the A side, was called “Mary Mary”. I don’t know what the B side’s name is.

– Don’t know if it was released by a label or it was a self-release. I would guess it is latter.

– It doesn’t seem that the record had a picture sleeve.

That’s it. Not much more. That’s all I give you. Let me know if you find anything about them!

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Word Association – Mary Mary