Day 162.
I continue posting Macguffins orders, So that’s really good. But I still want to ask you for recommendations of bands to feature on the blog! Please send my way!
Foreign Correspondent: wow! I had never heard this Melbourne band but it does sound great. They are releasing a 7″ with the Japanese label Blue-Very with 3 superb jangly songs on November 3rd. The artwork is very nice as well!
Diogenes Club: the other new release on this Japanese label is a 7″ by this Japanese duo. It is really really good. 3 songs on this 7″ and also the first 100 copies will get a CDR with unreleased tracks by the band. For me it is very expensive these Japanese releases but if you can afford don’t miss them out!
Gutingkuku: now to Indonesia, to check out the latest on Shiny Happy Records. It is a 3 song-CD by this band I know little, but it doesn’t matter. This EP titled “Lost and Found” has three sweet and cute bedroom-pop songs, “Leisure Time”, “Shooting Star” and “Something in You”.
The Shop Window: from Maidstone, UK, comes this four-piece featuring Carl Mann, Simon Oxlee, Martin Corder and Phil Elphee, and they have just released a new digital single called “Evacuate”. It is a very fine slice of pop, so do check it out!
Snow Coats: lastly we have to check this indie band from Doetinchem in the Netherlands. It is the first time I am listening to them and I am quite surprised by the poppy song “Navy Blue” which is their latest. I have to check the rest of their songs of course, but this one already won me over.
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When I was working on the Starke Adolf compilation series, the one that only got to see released one volume, I had a huge list of bands that I thought should be included. I was missing Pet Squad. I had Strip Squad, but not the Pet Squad. I have to say I only discovered them lately thanks to my friend David from Barcelona. And yeah, they were from around the same time of all the bands that I wanted to have. So as you can imagine I am terribly curious about them.
The band’s sole release was a CDR album called “Nice to Beat Home” that was released on their own Teknikcirkus. The album included 11 songs, “Bear on the Beach”, “My Name is Moto X”, “Loading a Raft”, “Like the Weather as You Change”, “To Touch the Dingo”, “Passing By Reminder”, “When Company’s Down”, “Nancy’s Dream Theme”, “Windmill”, “Unkown Story” and “Dizzy Airplanes”.
The band seems to have been formed by:
Johan Wickberg – vocals
Kalle Petersson – accordion, bass, flute, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, organ and trumpet
Henrik Kyhlberg – drums
Interestingly enough I had been in touch with Henrik a few years after this release. Henrik was my contact for Caroline Soul, who I released a 3″ back in 2007. I lost touch with him since then sadly.
There is that connection. But what do we know about the other two band members? I don’t have a clue. The band is not listed in Popfakta which I hoped they would be. They don’t have any compilation appearances listed. There’s really nothing on the web. Where in Sweden were they based? Did they have more songs? How long did the band last? Any details would be appreciated!
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