Day 223.

Still Dreams: is a duo from Japan formed by Maaya and Ryuta and are releasing a digital single now with two songs, “Ultra Doomed” and “Envy”. But the good news is that they are working on a 10″ mini LP to be released on Elefant Records!

Soft Blue Shimmer: this LA trio formed by Charlie, Kenzo and Meredith, make some terrific dreampop! They are going to be releasing on November 27 an album called “Heaven Inches Away” on vinyl LP. Right now we can preview one of the 9 tracks that will be included, “Cherry-Cola Abyss”.

The Color Waves: finally one of the albums I awaited the most this year is out! The self-titled album by The Color Waves, 10 songs of perfect pop, is available to listen on the band’s Bandcamp. Remembering of course that a few years back we released the “Chirology” 7″ (copies still available) which we think is a gem of a record. Precious guitars. Precious songs. Pop perfection.

Kindsight: a new song by the Copenhagen band we featured not too long ago. They are just giving us one song at a time. That’s ok if they continue being so good! This new song is called “Terminal Daze” and I am very much into it. Really like the vocals.

Grids and Dots: lastly another new song, this time by these Sydney popsters! The song is called “Hazy Jane” and it is quite nice. I look with envy that they have planned a gig on January 28. I wonder, will I go to gigs again? I really hope so. Will I be able to go to Australia someday? Makes me a bit nostalgic of good times. And this song works well, this cover of Nick Drake, which will be included in the band’s forthcoming debut EP.

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A Glasgow trio that released a 5″ flexi-disc on Sarah. A flexi that only had one song, the ramshackle noisy beauty that is “Your Love Is…”. A song that is not a favourite among Sarah fans, but I think it is great.

Of course I don’t own this release as it is very hard to come by many Sarah releases. This one as it is an early one, SARAH 13, it proves to be a bit hard. And that’s not all, alongside this flexi two fanzines came with it, the “Lemonade: a Fanzine” (SARAH 14a) and “Cold: a Lie” (Sarah 14aa), both of 16 pages. So getting the whole bundle these days should be quite difficult. Or maybe some of you are lucky. I don’t know. It’s been a while since I had the drive to be a Sarah completist.

But for sure I’d love to have this song in my collection.

Robert Smith was on guitar and vocals, Kenny Forte was on guitar and Christine Grant was on vocals. That was the trio’s lineup. Robert Smith would later be in some great bands like The Golden Dawn and Besotted. Yeah, I owe Besotted a post. Maybe that’s my next post.

When it comes to Christine’s Cat there is barely anything written on the web. Aside from the flexi they were featured on the boxset “C89” released by Cherry Red in 2018. It included the one song we know.

That’s it really. I would be very curious to know if Christine and Kenny were involved in any other bands, and if Christine’s Cat recorded more songs. Who knows the answer?

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Christine’s Cat – Your Love Is…