Hope everyone is doing good. A bit busy this week but here are some good finds worth checking out!
Nectar: formed by Kamila Glowacki, Aaron Shults, Isabel Skidmore and Jake Mott, this band has surprised me with this track called “Fishy”. It is a terrific song with punk pop vocals, it is catchy and very 90s! It seems this song was originally released some time ago on a split 7″ with the band Jupiter Styles, thought this version is actually a re-recording.
Emmett Kai: this Brooklyn based band is quite a surprise. A surprise for me as I am based in New York too. I don’t usually expect pop bands to appear in this city out of the blue. And it does look like this band has been around for a bit. Their latest track is called “Tiger Balm” and it is a jangly guitar-driven track. There is also a promo video for it!
Slow Glows: now a band from Cincinnati, Ohio, that makes some dreamy shoegaze. Their latest track is called “Sigh” and it is a top notch track. The band is formed by Kelli Redding on guitar and vocals, Ian Gorby on bass and Rachel Thode on drums.
Axolotes Mexicanos: “Te Quiero (…)” is the latest from one of our favourite Spanish bands. They have been very quiet as of late, probably working on their other projects. But I am terribly happy that they are back even if it is not a new record, but a video and digital single. Sounding great as usual!
VIM: another fantastic Melbourne band. It seems you turn a stone in Australia these days and you find a great band. This quartet has just released their “Waiting EP” on tape. It comes with 6 songs that shine bright! The band is formed by Nat Chippy, Matthew Corcoran, Roland Smirk and Ashley Stirling! Definitely a band to keep an eye!
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Let’s go back 34 years! 1985!
That year the label Who Cares who might or might not have been a label released a compilation LP called “Who Cares Wins: An Album for Oxfam” (WC1) where it included a bunch of up and coming bands from the UK. Among them one caught my attention, Feedback!
The band appeared twice on the record as all of the bands on it. They had the last song on the A side, “Time to Go”, and the opening track on the B side, “Feeding the Fire”. Two tracks of bouncy guitar-driven melodies. If I had to choose one of the two as a favourite, I’d probably pick “Time to Go”. It really is very nice!
I look for information about this compilation, I must say I am not familiar with the bands on it like Broken English, Union Pacific, Cross to Bare, Magnificent Seven, Pleasuremen or Cry of Aura. Happily there is a good scan of the art of the record on Discogs. I don’t own a copy sadly. So I need to find information through different ways. And there is some good info here. The back of the sleeve had like vignettes, one for each band. The first one is actually for Feedback. There’s a photo of them. They are a three-piece. And we get their names too. Jon Coupe on guitar and vocals, Jimmy Crank on bass and vocals and Andrew McDonald on drums.
It looks like all profits of this compilation went to Oxfam. That was the plan. The address of the label is in Manchester. Does this mean that the bands also hailed from the Manchester area? That’d be good to know.
Of course there is no more information about them. At least not easy to find. The name Feedback makes things way too difficult. The band members names don’t get me anywhere either. So yeah, found some interesting details about them, but nothing more. What was their story?
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Listen
Feedback – Twice to Go
