A short post for Friday. Weekend is ahead and will be able to work on thee art for MacGuffins retrospective (exciting!) and finishing the fanzine too. I think the fanzine should be out by mid-April. I’ll keep you updated with any news!
In the meantime find some good new music here!
Lawnchair: this Long Beach, California, band already surprised me with their music just a few weeks ago. Now they have released a new song called “Recess” which is really good. Lo-fi indiepoptasticness!
Bez: this must be the first time that I feature a band from Poznan, Poland! This dreampop psychedelic band released a CD album last July and it was called “Bańki mydlane”. It has 8 songs of swirling guitars with the great vocals by Siasia Wylzynska. The band is also formed by Sebastian Olko on guitar and synths, Mateusz Gawinecki on guitar, Mikolaj Meller on bass and Filip Skitek on drums.
Frio: “Idem” is a two song single released by the German label Entes Anomico. Frio is the name of the Argentinean band that have written these songs. There is very little information about this release. But I must say that the song “Drama” is really good. Will it get released in a 7″? a tape? Again, no info. All very cryptic here!
яблоня: this Russian band from Moscow has already graced the blog in the past. Now they are back with a new song called “еврокафе ” which is a strange mix of synthwave and indiepop!
The Empty Shell: do not confuse them with the great Irish 80s band Empty Shell. This Indonesian band from Bandung adds “The” to their name and their style is very different. The 3 tracks from their debut EP “Faint Light” are proper dreampop/shoegaze. The songs are being released by Ocean Records I suppose just in digital platforms for now but soon there will be a 3″CD.
Hazy Sour Cherry: the London label Damnably will be releasing the album “Tour de Tokyo” on vinyl sometime this year. The band formed by Tsuzumi, Jun, Karin and Poppo Professor hail from Shimokitazawa in Tokyo. They are a fun effervescent pop combo. The 11 songs on the album are worth playing!
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A rush of ringing and chiming guitars and French vocals is what I got when I stumbled upon the track “J’aurais Préferé” by Les Moonboots. But who were they?
The song is a bit odd. It clocks 1:43 minutes, and around the minute mark, that beautiful rush of jangly guitars stop and comes a different guitar style. Mysterious indeed.
This song I found on Youtube, on my friend Heinz’s account. I would find that this song was included in a tape called “Quatre-quarts”, a compilation released by Le Tatou Colérique (C94) in 1994. I had previously talked a bit about this comp, as the band Les Fleurs were also showcased on it. But I couldn’t say much as there really is not much information about it, nor about the label. We do know though that Les Moonboots contributed 3 other songs to it, “Un Mauvais Moment”, “Je Suis Combié” and “Le Piongeoir”. 4 in total then. And aside from them, as I said Les Fleurs were on it but also Caramba Encore Raté and The Village.
According to Discogs this is the only compilation the band appeared on. Sadly there seems to be no other information about them. It’d be great to find who were behind this band, but that seems to be impossible. I guess I will need my French friends to help me with that! So yeah, any details please share them with me!
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