Friday! Weekend is here at last! I just want to remind you that the Den Baron 7″s are available, so do get your copies! And the Dayflower 7″ is now in the process of being pressed! Exciting times for the label!
Also we have a new offer on the website. We have 5 records that are now 10 years old, 5 7″s released in 2009! So we are letting you pick 3 out of 5, any 3 you want out of these 5 (Play People, Hari and Aino, Signed Papercuts, Socialist Leisure Party and The Parallelograms) for a very low price including shipping. For US orders the price is $15 and for international orders it is $28. Hope you take advantage of it to complete your collection!
Finds for the weekend? Sure thing.
For Tracy Hyde: one of my favourite bands from Japan is back and will be releasing their 3rd album on the label P-Vine. It will be titled “New Young City” and there is a sort of trailer on Youtube to promote the album. This trailer consists of small clips of the songs on the record. In total the album will include 16 tracks and will be out on September 4th. The band will also be touring to promote the album and will be playing not just in Japan but also in Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia and more! Why not the US?!
The Korova Milk Bar: this is amazing! It seems Disques Blue Very will be releasing the pre-Johnny Dee band as a 2 song flexi and 7 track CDR. It will be limited to 250 copies. I hope I can manage to get one for myself. The opening track of the flexi is called “Rain Girls & Gentle Girls” and sounds ace.
Poppel: this Belgian band that surprised me last year will be releasing the album “Make Sense” on September 20th. The record will be released by the Spanish label Meritorio Records and will include 12 songs. At the moment we can preview one of the songs from the Turnhout-based band, “Listen”. And, pardon the pun, I urge you to listen.
2D Foil: this band with weird name comes from Beijing, China. Will they be releasing this 5 song EP on Boring Productions? That’s a good question. The songs on “:-) Foil” EP are dreamy and sweet. I think it would fit nicely in the Chinese label, though it does seem like a label called Letter Records has put it out. But is it only in digital format?
Japanese Heart Software: a one girl band from Melbourne who have just released a tape called “Lonely Hearts” and whose songs are terrific lo-fi pop gems. Who is she? She is called Nat Chippy and has recorded 5 songs for this release, which seems to be her first. Has she been in bands? Melbourne has an exciting scene, I think it is fair to ask. In any case, check it out, especially the track “Something” which is pure lo-fi guitar bliss.
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Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a holiday in some countries. Easter Monday in the Western Christian liturgical calendar is the second day of Eastertide and analogously in the Byzantine Rite is the second day of Bright Week.
Maidenhead. The 80s. That’s the setting for Easter Monday. A band who happens to be terribly obscure. A band who released just the one 7″. A 7″ that had many versions though.
The self-titled 7″ had three songs, “Rain” on the A side and “Children of the Harvest” and “Independence Day” on the B side. Released on their own and christening their label Easter Monday as well. This 7″ came out in 1989 and had the catalog number T.T.W.W. 001. Will I find a copy for myself?
We know that the band was a four-piece formed by Chris Phillips on vocals, Gus Evans on guitar, Adam C. Hodgson on drums and Stevie J on bass. I can’t find any other bands they might have been. Was this the only band they ever played in? That is hard to believe!
The 7″ with the black and white sleeve was limited to 500 copies and it says it came on an oversized plastic bag. It also features a photo of the band on the front, some snapshots of them on the back and then another cool photo of the band posing in front of a sign of Lloyds’ Old Holborn Blended Virginia. Then on one of the A side label and an illustration of the Statue of Liberty on the B side label. Now, 46 of these 500 copies, the first 46, came with a red and white sleeve. Why?
There are no compilation appearances listed. There is nothing else on the web it seems.
So that’s all really. I will need to ask you, my indiepop friends, to help me figure out this band! Who remembers them?
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