From the album 'Pray 4 Tomorrow'
Out November 11, 2022 on Mint Records
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Album Credits:
All songs written and produced by Dumb
Recorded and mixed by Nick Short at CHOMS
Mastered by Elisa Pangsaeng at CPS Mastering
All trumpet by Kristy-Lee Audette
Vocal harmonies on 30 Degrees written by Alie Lynch
Cover art by Bráulio Amado

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Pray 4 Tomorrow

Dumb - Excuse Me

not owned by me. music by "she's green". i just added it to soundcloud since it wasn't available here and i couldn't find the song to add to my playlist.

if you own the rights of this music and want me to remove it, please send me an e-mail: smoothysmcontato@gmail.com

thanks.

river - she's green

In studio live session @ VARA Studios, Netherlands (5/31/1992)

Lush - "Nothing Natural" (VARA 2Meter Sessions: May 31/1992)

Summer Here Kids (taken from Under The Western Freeway)

Car Seat Headrest Beast Monster Thing

http://www.bbossing.com/photo/image/1.noname/2006/200604/060413/060413.htm

Pinback - tripoli

1982 4-Piece Demo” is the first official, fully-licensed and unreleased material to be released under the name Strawberry Switchblade in 30 years. Since disbanding amid major record label acrimony and personal differences in 1986, the already-cult band have since grown in stature and legend. Trailblazers in many ways, the band’s mythology justifiably centers around the charismatic duo of Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, but that isn’t a complete picture.

Bryson and McDowall’s growing friendship, having met some years earlier on the punk scene, became a creative partnership: Bryson’s art school background and McDowall’s history in avant-punk group The Poets meant Strawberry Switchblade was a band pitted against many established norms. The band’s very first incarnation, an all-female 4 piece, recorded one demo at Glasgow’s Hellfire Club and played a handful of gigs. Friends Janice Goodlett and Carole McGowan completed the line up on bass and drums respectively. Strawberry Switchblade would eventually pair down to a duo and go on to chart success but it’s in these raw, passionate recordings that the songwriting and vocal elements were being hammered out and explored in real time.

“Spanish Song” is a previously unreleased song. With Rose McDowall’s instantly recognizable lead vocal dovetailing with Bryson’s harmonies and lead guitar, it’s the first glimpse at an alternative history of Strawberry Switchblade. This incarnation could easily have been featured on a Nuggets compilation or a precursor to the indie-pop revolution that would take over British bedrooms a couple of years later. Trees & Flowers is instantly recognizable, a bona fide classic that would earn the band its first record deal. Here it’s given a more forceful rhythm section: Goodlett and McGowan’s playing is in fact accomplished and doesn’t hint at the bands’ youth. Go Away would also surface later on the band’s debut LP but here it is a moody-garage stomper with a psychedelic, haunting refrain. These 3 songs point to a tantalizing future of the band that was never realized.

Remastered and restored by Sean Pennycook from the original cassette, with artwork based on a single photographic contact sheet (the only visual evidence of the band in this form) and with a booklet of photographs and new text from contemporary Stephen Pastel.

STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE - Spanish Song (from LSSN048 - 1982 4-Piece Demo)

Happy Holiday from twosyllable and Candy Claws

Candy Claws - Snow Face

Get Lost

You and Me and the Moon

Meth Wax - Local Music

A mix of Fall 2012 favorites from CHROMEWAVESRADIO.COM featuring Crooked Bangs, Ex-Cult, and The Mallard

Dumb - Excuse Me

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