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"Summer at Land's End" is the 4th LP from The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Glenn Donaldson’s solo kitchen pop "band." Since 2019 The Reds, Pinks & Purples have built an obsessive, ever-growing following by combining regular vinyl releases with occasional drops of new songs on Bandcamp. 2021's "Uncommon Weather" was something of a breakthrough and the brilliantly ambitious "Summer At Land's End" builds on it artistically in just about every way. It's expansively cinematic and atmospheric, while still being full of well-crafted, catchy melodic pop tunes. "Let's Pretend We're Not in Love" is a perfect example of this balancing act, an exercise in pop economy that sounds so immediately 'right' that it seems destined for a thousand mix tapes. Lush yet intimate, and redolent of both Glenn's beloved SF fog and the 80s/90s pop that he loves so deeply.

Summer at Land's End

Summer At Land's End

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Let's Pretend We're Not in Love

February 17th sees the release of "Green Eyed", the new single from
September Girls. The stand out track from their stunning debut album
Cursing the Sea (out January), the song epitomizes their
reverb-drenched sound.

Inspired by the call and response vocal style of “Look in My Diary” by
Sixties girl group Reparata and the Delrons, “Green Eyed” deals with
being trapped in a relationship with someone untrustworthy. Too scared
to question suspicions, the lyrics are the internal conversations in
your head that you are too afraid to have with the person themselves.

Named after a Big Star song via The Bangles, September Girls are
comprised of Paula (Bass/Vocals), Caoimhe (Guitar/Vocals), Lauren
(Keys/Vocals), Jessie (Guitar/Vocals) and Sarah (Drums). Their cool
blend of garage rock and post-punk has already seen them pick up
interest from the likes of NME Radar as well as Guardian New Band of
the Day. The new LP is also set to be Rough Trade's album of the week.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of Phil Spector, The Velvet
Underground, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus And Mary
Chain, the five-piece play reverb-soaked noise-pop of the finest
order, with distant layered harmonies, swirling organ and distorted
guitars once described as "sounds from a transistor radio abandoned in
a rural cinema."

“Nonchalantly cooing harmonies, driving basslines and swirling organs,
all with a hefty slice of Mary Chain-influenced reverb.” - NME Radar

“A compulsion to make 60s girl group pop sound echoey and strange:
beauty caught through a blur, a blizzard, as thought it’s about to
disappear at any moment through a fog of feedback and fuzz.” - The
Guardian, New Band of the Day

September Girls - Green eyed

What’s your kind and can we bind?
If it’s blinding, then it’s light
Who decides when you’re alive?
If you’re striving, you will thrive

It’s in my head
My good thoughts end up dead
It’s in my head
My good thoughts end up dead
It’s in my head
It’s in my head
It’s in my head

You can find where to go
If you give up your control 
Spin your mind, vertigo
You must give up your control
Oh, your control

And pour your blue skies into mine
Pour your blue skies into mine
Restore all the light
Restore all the light
Restore all the light
Restore all the light

What’s your kind and can we bind?
If it’s blinding, then it’s light

It’s in my head
My good thoughts are not dead
It’s in my head
My good thoughts are not dead
It’s in my head
It’s in my head 
It’s in my head
It’s in my head
It’s in my head
My good thoughts are not dead
It’s in my head

Thrive

Taken from the new EP Corridor, out now. Listen / buy: https://fulltimehobby.ffm.to/corneliacorridor

Changed

Cornelia Murr - Changed

Fatwood

'Hypnotized' is off of the new White Poppy concept album 'The Pink Haze Of Love' now available in full on
https://lone-hand.tumblr.com/

The Pink Haze Of Love

White Poppy - Hypnotized

Stay on Your Mind

ICloud

Oceans

Indistinct Conversations

Footnotes

Lucky

The first voice you hear on ‘It’s Already Tomorrow’ is James Hilton, author of the novel Lost Horizon (1933) and creator of ‘Shangri-La’, a utopian monastery located somewhere in Tibet, whose inhabitants do not age and where there is time to read and consider everything: Chinese topography, all wars and their causes, the myth of the Minotaur, Borges’ first-person retelling of it, The Island of Dr Moreau, the practical applications of astronomy. But who has time for that?’

September Girls - Green eyed

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