Some Gorgeous Accident – Heaven Sent Heaven Sent certainly isn’t the sound of a band heading towards it’s final destination as their Facebook page indicates but it looks like it’s the end of the road for a band who have been around in one guise or another since 2006/07. These songs are a collection of songs that were “lying about”. This Day and the title … Continue reading August Round Up #3
Excellent guitar pop from Sweden that draws it’s inspirations from dreampop, indiepop, C86 and to a lesser extent post-punk. The songs are wonderful and the vocals of Caroline Landahl are simultaneously melancholic and gorgeous. Essential listening. It’s out via Fire Records and is available on 12″ vinyl, CD and digital formats. Get it from here. Facebook Continue reading Hater – Red Blinders
The first album in almost 20 years from Kiwi legends The Chills is one of the reasons I have not posted for a while (No No No by Beirut and Songs To Play by Robert Forster being the others). Warm Waveform is one of the tracks taken from Silver Bullets and is bang on the money. Or something like that. Silver Bullets is out now … Continue reading The Chills – Warm Waveform
Fire Records will be re-reissuing the Spacemen 3 discography on 180g vinyl. The first part of this exercise sees the bands’ first three albums re-released next Monday with the original track listings – no extra tracks here. These are, with the year of original release in brackets Sound Of Confusion (1986), The Perfect Prescription (1987) and the live album Performance (1988). Continue reading Spacemen 3 Reissues
