Let’s go! Here’s some new music for this week!

Ivory Past / Shino Kobayashi: Ivory Past is one of my favourite bands from the past few years. It features Hitoshi from the fantastic Sloppy Joe and it is no surprise that the 3 songs he is contributing to a split tape shared with Shino Kobayashi are wonderful. This tape is now available to preorder on the Blue-Very Label Bandcamp. It is not available to preview but I am very curious of his cover of The Hepburns’ “The World Is” and do check Shino Kobayashi who was unknown to me but sounds amazing!

Cigarettes for Breakfast: this Philadelphia band is releasing a self-titled EP on February 20th. It will have 5 songs and at this point we can only check out the fuzzy shoegazy track “Daylight”.

The Oilies: this California band formed by Carly Putnam has a new track out on Bandcamp called “Dead Tires demo”, and it is really good! It is a fine slice of bedroom pop. It is lo-fi and in a way mysterious. Sounds like it was taken from an indiepop cassette compilation from the 90s!

La Vida Padre: when I saw the name of the band I thought they would be Mexican. You see in Mexico you say “padre” for “cool”. So it may sense to me, for their name to be ‘the cool life’. But no, the band hails from Barcelona and last November they released a joyful jangly mini-album of 7 songs! The band is actually a one-man project by Xavi Escriche. And again, it sounds great!

Lawnchair: and the last new recommendation is the twee-east of all. This crash-pop band, all ramshackle beauty has a lo-fi EP called “Go-Karting” consisting of 4 tracks packed with boy/girl vocals and evoking the great 2000s Soulseek and CDR bands! .

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One more from the WokingSoundscene Soundcloud and Facebook group. And this one sounds pretty good!

So I just discovered the band Pretty Green thanks to the song “Call” that WokingSoundscene has shared in their Soundcloud. By this point I don’t think I need to tell you about it, I’ve written a few posts about this fine resource of bands from the 80s and 90s.

There is also another song they have uploaded, “Deception”. And I wonder are these the only two songs they recorded? Let’s find out.

It turns out that “Call” was included, as well as their song “Small Town Scene”, on the “Snakebite City” (BLU03) compilation that Bluefire Records released in 1992. Whereas “Deception” appeared on the second of the Farnborough Groove series comp, “Son of Farnborough Groove”, also in 1992. Interesting. Now we have 3 songs we know of.

I just found that there was a fourth. It was called “The Wrong Conclusion” and it appeared on the 1994 compilation “Snakebite City Two” (BLU05) also released by Bluefire Records. Something that I am curious about is that these compilations used to come with an insert with information about the bands on the record. Maybe there were interesting details there about them?

We also know the last names of the band members, Abnett, Beagley, Fowler, Gambrill and Pritchard. They were around from 1991 to 94. But that is not all, in 2016 Record Collector  included them on the vinyl compilation “Small Town Scenery” with their song “Small Town Scene” (RCLP018). This is interesting. I wrote about one of the bands that appear on it, Triple Blind, not so long ago. Small world. This compilation, which I don’t have sadly, also includes an insert with info about the bands on it. Again, is there anything worthy in it? On Discogs there is a scan, and I can read that the band was formed in Fleet and the guitar player was called Matthew Pritchard. He mentions that they played quite a lot at the back room of The Fox and Hounds pub. Then, at some point, the band split into two bands, The Hairy Things and Skipper.

We know too of some gigs they played. It is said that the band opened for Mega City Four on many gigs but we also know they played the wonderful Buzz Club in Aldershot on Saturday January 16th 1993 alongside Peach Razor, Pomery, Backlash, Phobia and Big Boy Tomato. It was the “Snakebite City” launch party. Another gig was at the same club, on February 1st of 1993 along Ha Ha Men, The Riverthieves and Peach Razor. Two months later, on April 3rd, again at Jo’s club, playing with The Flowers of Sacrifice, Backlash and Peach Razor. How did these bands sound like? I am curious.

I wonder if there were demo tapes. There must have been. There must have been more songs too. I’d love to find out.

Not much info on the web, but at least we know a bit more now. I wonder who remembers them? Who can fill in the blanks?

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Listen
Pretty Green – Call