Someone must know about this band, surely? I can't believe they've never been mentioned on ILX.
Just picked up the 2015 reissues of their debut mini-album and subsequent full length LP, and it's a bit of a revelation. I vaguely knew about them via their appearance on the Cherry Red compilation "A Fine Day...And A Perfect Evening", but the handful of singles collected there was several line-up changes down the road from their initial beginnings as a synth/acoustic duo.
These earlier recordings(dating from 81-82) seem to occupy a similar place musically to early Felt, and even they had the same producer, John A. Rivers. There's something about that sound I find incredibly appealing, it's something that's very specific to this era. You can hear it in a lot of Cherry Red stuff like early EBTG and the Marine Girls, but there's very little(that I've heard) that sounds like it now.
― Pheeel, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 08:15 (nine years ago)