Okay! Holidays start this Saturday! Exciting times. So this will not be the last post of the week, but Friday’s. Also keep in mind that orders placed during the next two weeks will be shipped on December 17th. Thanks again and see you very soon!
Here are some good finds from the last few days.
Kawaii: some amazing news that the Norwegian duo formed by Mats and Hedda are finally releasing their unreleased second album. I thought this was going to happen at some point on Plastilina but I guess it never happened. I am glad then that the Spanish label Kocliko picked it up and are putting this album as a 10″ vinyl record! It is a short but sweet one. 10 songs are on it and I must say I am addicted to it on Bandcamp. Now I need my copy! I guess I will have to get it after my holidays. Even cooler, the artwork has been done by my friend David. Such a lovely package. All friends in this release, from Antonio, to Mats and Hedda to David. Great stuff!
Gizpel: the Indonesian band is participating in a compilation called “The Jakarta Connection”. It looks it is only available digitally on Soundcloud and it is being compiled by Sprechen Music. Gizpel sounds terrific in the song they are contributing called “Eyes on the Street”. High quality dreampop here.
Dayflower: our Leicester friends have put together an EP that collects songs that have appeared on cassette compilations, alternate versions of singles they have put out, including a cover of “Pristine Christine”. This is the first release of the band after the wonderful 7″ they put out with me, Cloudberry! The EP is called “Petal Drops” and it comes with 6 beautifully crafted pop songs. Not to be missed.
Filles Europees: a new band from Barcelona is always a good thing in my book. Formed by Helena, Irene, Júlia, Nil, Víctor and Xavi, they have just released a self-titled cassette EP by themselves with the help of La Nada Colectiva. The songs are terrific, energetic and catchy, especially the track “Júlia Aguilar” that will keep you playing it on repeat. The EP comes with the aforementioned track plus 3 more!
Rosegaze: and finally a Montreal band. We’ve been around the world today! Rosegaze are releasing a 7 song mini-album on December 5th called “Don’t Talk to Her, You’ll Fall in Love” I believe it will only be released digitally but one can hope there will be a physical release as well. At the moment we can only preview one of the tracks, the second one, “Sapir-Whorf”, which is excellent.
—————————————————————–
Back in 2007 there was a band Papa Go Riot who self-released a CDR called “…What’s This?”. I missed it that time. I wonder if I’ll be able to get a copy of it.
I believe there was just one person behind this band: Jon Gredmark. Of course he was much more known because of his other band, Elenette. This band was around the mid and late 2000s releasing three albums and many singles. But Papa Go Riot only released the one CDR as far as I know.
The CDR EP included 5 songs: “You Don’t Know Me at All”, “My Apartment”, “On My Way”, “Everything is Nothing” and “Entertainment”. All songs were recorded at Studio Räven on August 2007. Kalle Berglund, also from Elenette, and Jon Gredmark produced the songs.
At the time the band also had a website. It sadly doesn’t exist anymore.
I notice that the band name was probably inspired by the book “Père Goriot” by Honoré Balzac. In many languages the book is called “Papa Goriot”.
Sadly can’t find any other details about the band. Was this their only release? Did they appear on any compilations? Did they play live at all? Are there any unreleased tracks? Who would know!? Any info would be appreciated!
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Listen
Papa Go Riot – On My Way
