Still more Baby Lemonade orders that need to be sent! This is exciting! I am very glad and happy with the response of fans on this one. Soon I’ll be announcing the next release on the Cloudberry Cake Kitchen!

In the meantime, here are some good new finds from around the web!

Victorian Tin: there is a new recording by the classic Swedish band that I interviewed some time ago. it is called “Silver and Perfume” and it will be including in the upcoming Everlasting Records compilation “The Sound Your Dreams Make”. Hopefully there will be a Bandcamp to preview this compilation, but in the meantime you can check Victorian Tin’s track!

Ex-Vöid: I was raving about the song “Only One” by the new band formed by two ex-members of Joanna Gruesome that is now available on 7″. Well, they know this song is pretty good so there’s a video for it, with all members wearing metal band t-shirts (?). Definitely worth listening and watching!

Grrl Cloud: first time listening to this Manila dreampop project. Their latest track “Winding Streets” has been up on Soundcloud for about a month, so I am glad I have stumbled upon it, even if it is a bit late! It is a lovely song, with female vocals, fragile and sweet.

Alpaca Sports: so happy to see my friends from Gothenburg back in action! This video might be the last one they make to promote their album “From Paris with Love” and it is for the song “Saddest Girl in the World”! Of course this is one of my favourite songs of the album, so very happy to see some images to go with it! Now, where was this filmed? Was this a Swedish beach?!

Little Scream: Merge Records has just released a new album called “Speed Queen” by Little Scream on CD and 12″ vinyl! I’ve been playing a few songs, and even though I am not sold on them there is a track called “Disco Ball” that is gorgeous! So I recommend to check at least that one out! There are some other fine pop moments in it like on “Don’t Wait for It”,  “Privileged Child” and more… and there are some more indierock kind of songs.

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More from Ireland, and more discoveries thanks to the amazing Fanning Session blog.

See, I may have stumbled upon Wilder in the past as they released a 7″ on the Danceline label. This label put many very good indiepop records. But the thing is, the 7″ this band released is not listed on Discogs, so I wouldn’t have known about it. It was thanks to a post of the aforementioned blog, where they featured the Dublin’s band song “Babel Road” that I first met them.

The blog post is short but does give some interesting factoids. First of all we learn who the band members were:
Dez Foley was on vocals
Richard McDermott on guitar
Stephen Owens on keyboards
Bill Crawford on bass
Frank McGrath on drums

This song, “Babel Road” was actually released as the A side of a 7″ released by Oedipus Records (OR 001) in 1990. The B side being “Little Secrets”. You wonder of course who were behind Oedipus Records. Was it the band themselves? This is the only release I am aware on this label.

“Babel Road” was produced by Paul Byrne and Martin Clancy. The B side was produced by the band and Pat Dunne. The engineer for both tracks was Pat Dunne. Both songs were recorded at Sun Studios in 1990. The art for the sleeve is credited to Siobhan Hyde.

After this release I think they got the attention of the Danceline label. This label was responsible of putting out records by great bands like The Would Be’s and Rex and Dino among others. In 1991 the band would release with Danceline a 7″ (DLS 018) with two songs, “Can You Shake” on the A side and “Dark Heaven” on the B side.

I haven’t been able to find a sleeve of this 7″ so don’t have any details about it, like where was it recorded or who produced it. I should try to track copies of both records as it would be nice to have them in my collection.

The band also participated on the compilation “Fresh Evidence – New Exhibits from Ireland” that Danceline Records (DCD 1007) released in 1992. The band appears last, out of 17 songs, with “Can You Shake”. I don’t know any of the bands on this record, I wonder if there are good indiepop tunes in here?!

Fanning Sessions actually have another post about them, one where they share a song called “Get Happy” out of their 1988 demo. Well then, what other songs were on this demo tape? It’d be great to know.

Then Irishrock.org offers a couple of more details, especially about what happened after. So the band was around from 1988 to 1992, then they decided to change their name to Bliss and recorded a demo with John Scott in The Factory. Sadly they didn’t have any proper releases. How did they sound like? Are any of the tracks on that tape available to listen?

Then it adds that Dez Foley would join The Sewing Room (from 93 to 96) and later in the superb Crumb (2003-2009). According to a Crumb family tree I found, he was also in a band called Melba. Much later, in 2015 I think he went solo under the name Acton Bell. Interesting.

Cool! Now I know a little bit more about them. Now I just want to hear to more of their songs, hopefully get their records, and who know, maybe I’ll get to interview some of the band members and be able to find out the story behind this Dublin band!

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Listen
Wilder – Babel Road