Day 106!
Okay! Macguffins proofs are approved so that is being pressed now officially. Pre-order button is up on the website and many people are pre-ordering. Remember that the CDRs with the first demo are limited to 100 copies.
Now now music so we can start this weekend in a happy way!
Sweam: this Oslo band sounds pretty neat. Fuzzy and dreamy. This 5-piece have just released an 11-song album called “Lounge Music for Cat People” and sadly it doesn’t look to be released in physical format, at least not yet. But good thing of course is that we can play over and over the songs on Bandcamp!
Sissy Space Echo & the Invisible Collaborators: I don’t know much about them, I just know they have a wonderful song called “At 7.44” on the compilation “Signals, Wires & Amplifiers”. The comp is sort of a mixed bag of good and not so good songs. But this one is VERY good. So check it out.
Fantasy Postcards: what do you get when an Able member and a Seashells member meet in Uppsala and make music? They make a gem of a song. For now. Because I am hoping to hear more than the one song. Under the name Fantasy Postcards they’ve unveiled “Our Special Mission” a superb indiepop song!
Airhockey: a new track by the Miami based band that is pretty good. Every time I listen to them I feel some sort of nostalgia of the time I spent in Miami. Especially because there was no band sounding this way. Not that people can go to gigs now, but at least you can feel proud of the city you live in. “Not Enough” is the name of the song. Check it out.
Juliper Sky: another new digital single is “Afterglow” by this great Manchester band that is quite familiar to the Cloudberry blog. I have recommended their blend of jangly guitars and shoegaze guitar-walls many times. And here I am doing it one more time
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Another band that I discovered thanks to the compilation “Television Personalities From Japan, Too” was Sweet Petticoat. Of course I didn’t know anything about them, but I liked what I heard. So let’s see if we can find more info about this Japanese band!
The compilation was released by the very fine label A Trumpet Trumpet Records (TT006) in 1992. I’ve talked a few times about this label, and would be awesome if some day I’d get to interview the people behind it. I am sure they have lots of anecdotes about the fantastic Japanese scene from the early 90s.
On this compilation the band appeared last out of four bands with the track “How Does the Song Go?”.
We know that the band was formed by Shoga Matsuda on vocals and guitar, Toru Sasaki on keyboards, Kunihiro Isami on bass, and Yuki Fukazawa on backing vocals. Though on the booklet the photo of the band just shows two people. One must be Shogo Matsuda, who is the other one?
Shogo Matsuda and Kunihiro Isami are two well known names in Japanese indiepop as they had been involved in a legendary nineties band, Budgie Jacket. I wrote about Budgie Jacket some time ago on the blog too.
And of course, there’s little more info about Budgie Jacket. But nothing about Sweet Petticoat. Was it a one-off band? Just for this release? Or did they record more songs? Did they play live? I really hope find some details about them!
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