August 2014: The Indie Disco at the end of the Universe

Sugar - Helpless

It took the Pixies, borrowing the Hüsker Dü blueprint and bending it to their loudQUIETloud will, to show Bob Mould the way to commercial success. With his new band, Sugar, on Copper Blue he put...

Lemonheads - Confetti

Poor Evan Dando, weighed down by all that lovely long hair, barely has the energy to sing or play guitar, let alone sing AND play guitar at the same time. It takes a lot of...

The Boo Radleys - Lazy Day

Martin Carr tends to be pretty honest about some of his back catalogue, once describing Wake Up Boo! as the most cynical thing he’d ever done. Of I Hang Suspended he writes:

Sultans of Ping FC - Give Him A Ball (And A Yard Of Grass)

Bonus edition!

The Wedding Present - California

Of course, everyone remembers that Boing! was an album by Airhead, and a single by The Wedding Present. One of the 12 they released in 1992 in their monthly chart attack. While Boing can be...

Airhead - Funny How

Well, I’ve slipped back a year again (kinda - the single was out in ‘91, the album in ‘92…), but I have my reasons. This one just popped into my head while I was thinking...

The Sundays - Goodbye

It’s the lovely Harriet Wheeler again. If you don’t think she has just the most beautiful voice, you might want to consider booking an appointment with your local ear calibrator.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone and Out

Had I been older, perhaps, or at least more rock, art-rock, or punk literate when The Jesus and Mary Chain released Honey’s Dead in 1992 I might have seen it more in the context of...

Curve - Fait Accompli

Who’s this - is it Garbage?

Moose - Little Bird

Meanwhile, back in the land of the criminally overlooked were Moose, thrown in the shoegazing bucket because in their very early days, on their first few EPs, waves of guitar did indeed wash over the...

Morrissey - Tomorrow

This is Sunday’s post, which means in a way I’m posting it tomorrow. See what I did there? That said, I can always change the time later so it looks like I posted it yesterday....

The House of Love - You Don't Understand

Great lost albums #488: Babe Rainbow by The House of Love, a crashing disappointment for Fontana, peaking at #34.

The Shamen - Move Any Mountain

In 1990, The Shamen had their first chart success with their fourth album, En-Tact. The album’s lead single Progen found itself a host of remixes, became Move Any Mountain, hit the top 5, and launched...

Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough

You know how I said I was trapped in 1991? Yes, well, if you could just ignore the slight continuity error and enjoy this slice of Scottish sunshine from Teenage Fanclub, that’d be great. It...

Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet

Day by day I am becoming ever more trapped in 1991. But that’s ok, we can see this through, it will just take time.

Ride - Vapour Trail

Early 90s indie cred 101: own a copy of, or profess love for Ride’s 1990 debut album, “Nowhere”. It kicks off with I am The Resurrection put through an industrial grinder, Laurence Colbert drums throughout...

Chapterhouse - Breather

No video for this one, but it’s the actual track from the actual cassette! Sounds like it was uploaded via wax cylinder, but what the hey. When you hear the word shoegazing, this is what...

Poppy Factory - Stars

Information about The Poppy Factory scraped from the sides of the internet: They hailed from Bradford, and signed to Chrysalis after the label’s first choice signees The Bridewell Taxis chose drugs and a mid-gig punch...

Spirea X - Chlorine Dream

Foolishly, I ignored everything else Spirea X did, assuming it would be more of the murky psychedelia on show in Chlorine Dream, but Fireblade Skies is a far brighter album, albeit one that does little...