So after all the Indietracks reviews I can get back to finding new bands, new sounds. Some of these might not be as new and you might already have heard about them but just in case you missed them I present them again to you.

Patience: this is the great new video for “Girls are Chewing Gum” which is a song that will be included in the debut album “Dizzy Spells” that is to be released on May 3rd. I just saw the band play here in New York and had such a good time. This is one not to miss by the ex-Veronica Falls and The Royal We’s Roxanne Clifford.

Different Angels: two electropop songs by this London band are being released on 12″ vinil. “Problems” and “Reasons” sound pretty good. I don’t know who is behind the songs though it seems the songs were recorded by four friends, not only in the UK but also in the West Coast of the US.

Vacations: “On Your Own” is the name of the latest song this Newcastle, Australia, band has released. I must say it sounds really great! It is blissful, catchy and dreamy. One of the best songs I’ve heard so far this month!

Shiny Times: Kim Weldin from the lovely Tape Waves has just released a new album called “Can’t Be Depressed” but this time around is for her solo project Shiny Times. It is a short one, 8 songs, which are available now on Jigsaw Records on CD and Shiny Happy Records from Indonesia on tape. It is a very sweet record. I miss lo-fi pop done with this care, so happy this exists.

The Wendy Darlings: our French friends are back this May with a new album called “Against Evil”! That is great news. 13 songs of fun pop songs which we can’t listen yet. Only one of the songs, “Always Late”, is available to stream on the label Oddbox Records’ Bandcamp. It will be available on CD.

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This will probably be a short post. All I know about this Irish band is whatever is posted on the delightful Fanning Sessions blog. I can’t find any other bits of information anywhere else.

I’m hoping the band recorded more songs other than the three demo songs that are available to stream on the aforementioned blog. These songs are “Pittsburgh”, “No Comebacks” and “Halloween Cafe” and were part of a 1988 demo tape that was engineered and produced by Pat Dunne during August of that year at Sun Studios.

We do know too that the band was formed by Simon Crosbie (rhythm guitar and vocals), John McCabb (lead guitar & vocals), Eoin O’Broin (bass and vocals) and Gavin Buckley (drums).

Thanks to some press clippings that are available on the blog we know the band had other songs like “Cody”, “So Sentimental”, “Chocolate Dreams”, “Rock n’ Roll Party Five”, “Kill Eek!” and “Tom Buchanan”. Were these songs properly recorded? It also seems that the band was very young. An article calls them “teenagers”.

And that’s all there really is on the web about them. So I’m hoping for some help. I liked what I heard so far and would definitely want to know more about this short-lived Irish band!

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The Foremen – No Comebacks