So as I said there are new stickers we’ll have next month. I am looking into making a new batch of badges too. It’s been a while since we had some.
On my latest order from Slumberland, the East Village 12″, I got some trading cards for Slumberland. I thought that was a cool idea. I wonder what other sort of memorabilie we could do. I don’t want to copy of course. But if you have some cool ideas let me know.
The fanzine is shaping up nicely. I will be having more news next weekend I hope! And then I really want to have news of releases soon. It is taking a bit, but let’s keep hope that it will be soon!
West Coast Music Club: originally this West Kirby band was a collective of musicians recording songs by Martin Adams. Then the band expanded and other song-writers emerged. Their latest release is a CD with three songs, an EP called “All that I Wanted”. The songs on it are “All that I Wanted”, “If I had a Dream” and “Love Affar”, being the middle one my favourite!
Topographies: it is kind of weird that a label doesn’t give any information about their release. The label seems to be called Dream Recordings and it looks likt the track “In Crept Doubt” that appears on Soundcloud was included in a cassette EP by Topographies called “Difference & Repetition”. There seem to be also three other songs.
Deer Grove: this Odense, Denmark, band has released a new song called “The Men on the Moon”, a fine slice of dreampop. But just a few days ago they also released an EP called “A Dream of Magic” that included three fine songs, “Shut Up About Flying Saucers”, “Cloudgazer” and “Did You Make it?”. Very good!
Bllume: the solo project of Arthur Bennell from Edmonton, Canada. The latest release by this sweet DIY lo-fi shoegazey band is called “Still Believe”. It is a four-song EP that has the songs “Still Believe”, “Didn’t Care”, “When You Took My Hand” and “I Miss You”. The EP is mysterious, dreamy, and cool sounding.
Addy: from Richmond, Virginia, comes a new album called “Eclipse”. I have previewed the two tracks available on Bandcamp, “Planted” and “Easier”, and they are these light soft popsongs whose melodies creep into you. It is a quite interesting sound. The album which will have 9 songs will be released on vinyl, cassette and CD on March 6th.
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Euonymus europaeus, the spindle, European spindle, or common spindle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on nutrient-rich, chalky and salt-poor soils. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree. Other names include fusoria, fusanum, ananbeam, shemshad rasmi (Iran), while it may have given its name to the ancient Greek settlement of Euonymeia.
This will probably be a short post. To be honest I think the Spindle Berries are as obscure as it gets. I only know one song by them but that is enough for me to try to track them down. The song is pretty, girl vocals and slow jangly guitars. How could I not like it?
This song is called “I’m So Clumsy”. It appeared on a compilation tape from 1990 called “Heol”. This tape, which I believe I’ve mentioned in the blog in the past, was released in France by the Karen label (KAREN 02). This label had released previously a tape by the amazing Les Freluquets who I interviewed many many years ago. Then there was a second “Heol” compilation, “Heol 2” which is not on Discogs.
The vocals sound as if the band hailed from the UK. I may be wrong as this tape features lots of French bands as well. But I am going to bet they were British. Aside from it, there is absolutely no information about the Spindle Berries on the web. Just this contribution to a tape. No other songs. No band members. I can’t find anything at all. I really like this track, so I am hoping someone remembers them or someone knew them. Would really love to find out more about them!
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