Okay, this past weekend I listened to some music of course. Like always…

Starry Eyed Cadet: I was very lucky to listen to the new Stary Eyed Cadet songs like a week before they were available on Bandcamp. I couldn’t wait to share them on the blog as they are wonderful. Now they are available to stream on Bandcamp and you’ll fall immediately with them, as it is always the case when there is new stuff by the San Francisco band. This time around they have a digital single with these lovely songs, “Slow” and “Stargazer”, which I hope get a physical release or maybe they’ll be part of something bigger, like an album? I don’t know! But one can hope, right?

Live at the Onion Cellar: what a superb find! This blog has a ton of treasures. Lots of great photos of bands like The Househunters, Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, the TVPs and even the obscure The Fizzbombs. The Onion Cellar was a venue in Edinburgh that was around 1986 and 1987 and many top indiepop bands played there… And it is not just photos! There are live recordings from gigs too!!

The Pariahs: So Firestation Records from Berlin have three new releases. Let’s go one by one as they are really wonderful. The first one is a retrospective album called “Friendly & Corageous” by the Berlin band The Pariahs. If you remember well I interviewed them some years ago, and the album they released back in the 90s was great too. So this is one not to be missed. You can check the song “Faith Means Nothing” on the label’s Soundcloud. The album is available on CD.

The Groovy Cellar: the classic Berlin indiepop/mod band is back with a new album on Firestation. The album is called “Soulmates” and sounds fantastic. Of course I’ve invterviewed them in the past as well! I’ve been playing on repeat the song “This is Tomorrow” the song picked to promote the record. But that’s not all, because there are 12 songs in total adding another ace episode to their discography, being this their third album, first since 2013! Only available on vinyl.

Peppelkade 14: lastly the Manchester band that I interviewed some months ago will be releasing a retrospective called “North of England” on LP and CD. Not sure what is in it as from what the band told me last time the only recordings were the ones on the 12″ they released. Or maybe they found more songs? It’d be great to know! In any case play “Uptown” on repeat and order a copy of the record!

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A quantitative analyst (or, in financial jargon, a quant (pronounced) is a person who specializes in the application of mathematical and statistical methods – such as numerical or quantitative techniques – to financial and risk management problems. The occupation is similar to those in industrial mathematics in other industries.

Now is the turn for the letter Q. I must say this has been the most difficult one so far in this challenge. Especially as I had already covered the bands Quinn the Eskimo, Quentins and Queue Dance. There are not many that start with Q! I could only think of Quants who appeared on the classic tape “Everlasting Happiness” with the song “Suicide Blonde”.

As it turns out this is the only song I am aware they released. I’m sure there were other recordings, perhaps “Suicide Blonde” was included in a demo tape along other songs and this tape ended up in this tape that my good friend Andreas put out in 1992 where he included many fantastic bands, from Nine Steps to Ugly to Slowdive.

There is no other information I could find about them. Just this song. So can’t add much more other than that today. The only guess I dare to make is that they were British. But can’t say any more. Do anyone have any other details about them?

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Quants – Suicide Blonde