A fiction

The Spanish affair

Indiepop institution Fortuna POP! quit the scene last year amid much gnashing of teeth from discerning music fans, going out in a blaze of glory with five days of sold out London shows by artists spanning their twenty year tenure, before label owner Sean Price fled Brexit Britain for a new life in Tokyo, Japan. 

That would have been it for Fortuna POP!, were it not for the label’s Jukebox 45s Singles Club. With one final single still owed to subscribers, Price saw the opportunity to do something special for what would be the very last release on the label. Taking one of the label’s best-loved releases, Comet Gain’s classic 2001 single “You Can Hide Your Love Forever”, as his starting point, contributions were solicited from Fortuna POP! bands past and present for a Band Aid-style cover version.

Over twenty bands contributed, with the music recorded by a crack band featuring Amos Memon of Fanfarlo (drums), Emma Kupa of Mammoth Penguins (bass), Laura Kovic of Tigercats (keys) and Paul Rains of Allo Darlin’, Ben Phillipson of Comet Gain and Sam Ayres of Flowers (all guitar) at Soup Studios in London. Mikey Collins of Allo Darlin’ then recorded percussion at Big Jelly studios in Ramsgate, and The Victorian Horns aka Gary Olson (trumpet) and Kyle Forrester (sax) of The Ladybug Transistor put down their brass parts at Gary’s Marlborough Farms Studio in New York.

Vocals were recorded in various studios and kitchens around the world, with Amelia Fletcher of Tender Trap, Daniel Ellis of Martha, Lan McArdle and Owen Williams of Joanna Gruesome, Adam Todd of The Spook School, Bill Botting and Elizabeth Morris of Allo Darlin’, Jeff Greene and Dan Greene of The Butterflies Of Love, Lisa Horton and Iain Ross of Bearsuit, Katherine Whitaker of Evans The Death, Silvi Wersing from Chorusgirl, Helen King of Shrag, Rachel Kenedy of Flowers, Pete Dale of Milky Wimpshake, Darren Hayman, Pete Astor and Simon Love all contributing. Giles Barrett at Soup Studios then made sense of it all and mixed the track.

The result is a fantastic, uplifting indiepop anthem that’s sure to be lifting the lids off indie clubs around the world this summer and for many years to come. Oh, and there’s a B-side too, in which DC Feck of Thee Comet Gain International Psychedelic Pop Conspiracy may have had more than a hand. Enjoy.

You Can Hide Your Love Forever

Neon Ballroom

taken from the "Pillars of Damnation" 12"LP/CD

Temple Nightside - Death Eucharist

LST-111 SLEUTH "Gold" Cassette Tape w/ Digital Download

Release date May 29th, 2020

Vancouver indie pop band, Sleuth just released the music video for their track “Sick Days” ahead of their 7 song, sophomore album, Gold (Lost Sound Tapes and Jigsaw Records). The anticipated release date May 29th with pre-orders available now on Lost Sound Tapes’ Bandcamp, promising a solid gold cassette with digital download, and CD pre-orders forthcoming through Jigsaw Records.

The highly topical video features members (Julian Bowers, Jasper Lastoria, Jon Manning and Oliver McTavish-Wisden) making the best of a bad situation filming themselves in isolation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. They're experiencing both the mundane, frustrating, and occasionally funny aspects of social distancing. If local situations improve, the record release party was set at Red Gate Arts Society May 30th with Flying Fish Cove, Maneater and Primp but instead Sleuth will be organizing a virtual gathering.

Gold

Buy Tapes

Flowers

and it’s only for a time we’ve fallen back again
and it’s only for a lifetime standing hand and hand

when i see you in the corner of my eye trying to sleep
when i’m holding what i have and what i need to keep

how do you know
i love you so

Canada Day

salts

Two hours of new cutting-edge post-punk/ punk/ alternative/ experimental/ no wave/ darkwave/ shoegaze/ psychedelia/ dreampop/ quirky pop and other assorted slices of musical excellence, with two opening oldies - presented by Simon Edwards.
The featured album was New Fries' 'Is The Idea Of Us'.

Talking Heads – New Feeling
Chrome – The Monitors
New Fries – Bangs
Naked Roommate – Mad Love
Slim – Melt The Season
FAZI & Hiperson – Night Walk
New Fries – #2 Genre/Lily
The City Gates – Siegfried 1969
Omega Vague – The Way Out
New Fries – Mt. Tambora
Grey Skies – Automaton
Crooked Love – Dynamite
Puzzle – Stupid People
New Fries – #5 Genre/#6 Genre
Lights That Change – Pure
Faux Watson – June Underground
Tumbas – Dolor
New Fries – Ploce
Olde Boi & The Sounds In His Head – Riing Of Fire
Bi-Product – Selfish Girl
Bad Ashley – Church Of The Redeemer
New Fries – #8 Genre/#9 Genre
Zoom Unit – Dark Continent
Pedal Generic – Pitch Black Blizzard
Long Hours & Merry Ghosts – Midori No Kohsen
New Fries – L'Express/#11 Genre
Purslane – Apocryphal
Noxeema – Last Gasp
Buitres – Santa Rosa
New Fries – #12 Genre/Arendt Adler Pulley Pulley Pulley Pulley Pulley
Gareth JS Thomas – We Are The Same
Subduxtion – Cluster

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Loose Canon – Monday 27th July 2020 (#361)

"Behind Bar // Sword" were recorded during the Mirror LP sessions with Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden in 2016.

For now, digital sales of this release will be directed to CCF Wildfire Relief Fund.

Thank you for listening.
Jared, Michael, John
credits
released September 1, 2020

Balms are Jared Padovani, Michael Ascunsion & John Kolesnikow • All Songs Written by Balms • Recorded by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden, East Palo Alto, CA • Mixed by Justin Gerrish at Hook & Fade Studios, Brooklyn, NY • Mastered by Justin Weiss at Trakworx, San Francisco, CA • Album Art by Naveed Ahmad

Behind Bars

Something in the way (Nirvana cover)

super rough first draft of a new synthpop idea, forgive the logic default drum loops and simple bass. bare bones.

sordid business but you came unprepared 
to bear witness through chemicals stained air
may I say, blown away
colours in your hair
best behaved, a freeze frame
beauty’s not been spared

silent mistress with deep marble eyed stare
bears no witness to his tangling hair 
may I say, I know shame
colours that we’ve shared 
move in place, we rotate
not moving anywhere

angel lifted by your vulgar night prayers 
tired and listless in truth he’s hardly there
i field blame, all the same 
the truth is hardly fair
through decay, I reframe
the fox becomes a hare

Loose Canon – Monday 27th July 2020 (#361)

Simon Edwards, Leek

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