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Sambassadeur - Forward Is All
VA - A Sandwich And A Sweater (Cassette, 1996)
Old school indiepop!!! Love this cassette.
Tracklist:
1. MacGuffins - Rich Together
2. Calloways - Kalamazoo
3. Windmills - The Day Dawned On Me
4. Prayers - Puppet Clouds
5. Man Of Westnesse - The Coldest Water
6. Chefs - 24 Hours
7. Gangway - Out On The Rebound From Love
8. Moss Poles - One Summer
9. Lovenotes And Lithium - When Love (Gets In The Way)
10. River Roses - Innocent June
11. April Showers - Abandon Ship
12. Room - One Hundred Years
13. Would Be’s - I’m Hardly Ever Wrong
14. Big Gun - Heard About Love
15. Dislocation Dance - You’ll Never Never Know
16. Apple Moths - Kymri
17. Servants - The Sun A Small Star
18. Buba & The Shop Assistants - Something To Do
19. French Impressionists - Castles In The Air
20. Spinning Jennys - I’d Laugh If Your Head Exploded
21. Wallflowers - Blushing Girl, Nervous Smile
22. Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike - Norman And Narcissus
23. Laugh - Paul McCartney
24. Dubious Brothers - Don’t Laugh At Me
25. Club Hoy - On And On
26. Honeycrash - One False Move
27. Passmore Sisters - June In The Water
28. Cinematics - Puffa Train
29. Moving Jelly Brothers - Oddball
The Haircuts - Sorrow Is the Way to Love (2006)
The Haircuts were the duo of Teresa Daniele (Sarah, Plain + Tall/Paint Your Wagon Red) and Ryan Marquez (Apple Orchard/Sodajerk). Inspired by tweepop, some C86-era bands, classic K Records stuff, and a love for tape hiss! ~ Last.fm
Billie the Vision & the Dancers - I Used to Wander These Streets (2008)
The fourth album from the lovable misfits in Billie the Vision & the Dancers doesn’t offer any significant changes from the three that came before it; it’s just another easily enjoyable batch of sweet, playful, sincere ramshackle twee pop. There are still plenty of love-lorn lyrics centered around the fictitious everypeople Lily and Pablo, though Lars Lindquist also pens some particularly personal narratives, recounting his childhood move from Denmark to Sweden in “Stuttering Duckling,” tenderly delving into candid sexual realism in “You’re Not Giving Up on Me,” and detailing an eye-opening, guilt-ridden experience in London’s queer nightclub scene in the poignant “Swedish Sin.” Other highlights include the bright, sunny pop of opener “Lily from the Middleway Street,” the shuffle-ska “Groovy,” a guest vocal from Annika Norlin (of Hello Saferide) on “I Belong to You,” and a surprisingly effectiveGuns N’ Roses interpolation on the break-up ballad “Liar and a Thief.” ~ K. Ross Hoffman, AMG
Elf Power - Elf Power (2010)
Elf Power’s self-titled tenth album is dedicated to their friend and occasional collaborator Vic Chesnutt, and while it’s hard to say how much the passing of Chesnutt influenced this music, Elf Power is a more subdued and contemplative work than the last several albums that preceded it. The songs are intelligently crafted but clean of line, with the folkier and more organic approach of albums like Walking with the Beggar Boys and Back to the Web carrying through to these sessions. There’s also a psychedelic undercurrent to the melodies and arrangements that provides a clear link to Elf Power’s formative recordings, but the music is decidedly tidier and more straightforward than they were in the days when they worshiped at the altar of lo-fi, and the album’s overall impact is gentler, cooler, and more subdued. Elf Power hardly sounds mournful, but “Little Hand,” “The Taking Under,” and “Spidereggs” reflect a mature and thoughtful outlook, and even the most upbeat numbers are the work of a group who’ve are clearly willing to embrace a deeper and more resonant sound than they did in their past. Elf Power also finds the band returning to their own Orange Twin Records imprint after a spell on Rykodisc, and while they sounded thoroughly uncompromised during their tenure on the semi-major label, the mood of these songs is both casual and emotionally open, with a sense of freedom in this music that’s quietly liberating even when dark clouds appear on the horizon. Elf Power often sounds simple on the surface, but there’s a remarkable depth to this work that confirms these indie pop veterans still have a lot on their minds, and no trouble finding eloquent ways of expressing themselves. ~ Mark Deming, AMG
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