Day 209.

Salt Lake Alley: this is amazing news! I was sharing the other day the song “Going Down” by our Swedish friends. This song is actually the third single from their upcoming album “The Way it Feels”. The news today is that there’s a video where we join Gustav and Mikael (with a great Snoopy shirt) on some nice footage of them walking around town and playing live. Top stuff!

The Sensitive/To Die: each of these bands contribute a song to this split put together by Let’s Kiss a Secret Records from Jakarta. The Sensitive gives us “Do Everything Or Else Yourself” while To Die presents us with “No Reflection on Life”. Sadly I am only a fan of The Sensitive, or maybe that’s a good thing?

Attic Salt: some great punkpop/powerpop here on Jump Start Records from Philadelphia. The album “Get Wise” is already out on both vinyl and CD and it sounds really good! There are 10 songs of catchy bouncy effervescent pop!

Fixtures: this Brooklyn band is new to me. They are releasing an EP called “Weak Automatic” on December 4th on tape. The EP will have 6 songs and at this moment we can preview the opening track, “Five Ft One, Six Ft Ten” which sounds pretty good!

Nevver: here is a cool single by a Madrid trio called “Nada Me Importa”. It is a digital single on Elefant Records.  There’s also a video for the song.

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I have discovered a Youtube account called AGMP where there are a lot of indiepop treasures. I will try to make everyone’s easier and pick the good bands and songs among all the other stuff that is not indiepop in the channel.

It is really great as a lot of it is quite obscure as the Gleesome Threesome band. The band that I want tom show you today, On Margate Sands, is probably even much more obscure!

The song I’ve listened is called “Charlie” and it is terrific. It was released on a tape compilation called “Blabbermouth Volume One”. It seems this tape was put together by the Medway Bands Co-op to promote bands in the area. How cool is that!

So I start looking for the band. One thing I notice is that their name seems to come from a poem by T.S. Eliot called “The Waste Land”. The line in said poem says, “On Margate Sands/I Can connect/Nothing with nothing”.

Sadly I can’t seem to find any other information about them like the band members names, if they had been in other bands, if they actually had any releases or maybe more recordings. I really would like to know. This tape seems to have many more wonderful tracks, and I’ll share with you more in future posts. Terrific and exciting finds indeed!

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On Margate Sands – Charlie