The third in this set of Bandcamp EPs finds Honey Smugglers at Bark Studio in Walthamstow in the Autumn of 1990 during initial sessions for a follow up to the `Listen' EP. As it turns out we recorded a different set of songs for the `Closer' EP in early 1991.

Each of the first three songs were longstanding stage favourites and could be heard in most Smugglers setlists. `Anybody But You' embodies the Smugglers groove as well as any of their tunes and check out the spontaneous studio magic as Steve kick starts the piece on an Organ with a mind of its own.

`Pie In The Sky' appeared in live form on an album recorded at The Sausage Machine in Hampstead, (`Now That's Disgusting Music') but this is the studio version. In a gigging situation we used to see how long we could extend the gap in the middle before people would start clapping, but here....just an uneasy, digital silence.

`Beautiful People' was played in a number of arrangements throughout the band's career, this perhaps being the best and most concise. The improvised vocal coda at the end by Chris assures this version's place as first choice. It was a first take vocal.

The final track `Whole Wide World' was a unique cover version which was only ever played this once. It was part of a planned Fiction Records sampler which never happened. It didn't even cross our minds to play it live, great song though it is, I guess we had too many of our own songs vying for position in a setlist of ten.

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Indie Pop, Dreampop, Hypnagogic Pop, Neo-Psychedelica, Bedroom Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Indie Rock, Alternative

such strange hours

Reds, blues, and greens cast the pattern in your eye...

Ronan Goron - drum kit (tracks 2-6, 9) lead vocals (tracks 1-7, 9) synthesisers (all tracks), guitars (tracks 2-7, 9) sampler (all tracks) bass guitar (tracks 3,6), handpan (track 2), drum machine (track 7)
Valentina Tesorone - backing vocals (tracks 2, 4) bass guitar (2,4)
Tom Coyne - electric guitar (track 2)
Josh Vintaer- bass guitar (track 7)
Hattie Waters - violin (track 9)
Jamie-Ray Scarratt - drum engineering (tracks 2,3,6) mastering (track 2)


1. Playing Hooky
2. Mono Lake
3. Anya's Dream
4. Ocean in the Sky
5. The Magic Mountain
6. In Riverbeds
7. Sleep Study
8. Tape Library
9. Odd Socks

Playing Hooky

A hazy, sun-drenched memory captured in a song, "Paper Lanterns" is Phantom Harmony's whimsical tribute to '60s psychedelic pop. With its bright acoustic guitar arpeggios and ethereal vocals, it's a nostalgic journey into a forgotten era.

Paper Lanterns

07 - DELHI BELLY

Sunshine Superman

Season of the Witch

You come around playing with my heart 
You come around telling me secrets 
You come around asking me why I've been such a fool 

But I'll take it back to the start 
Back to when it was something new 
Change, it comes around, with its reflections too 

It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through the night 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through 

Slide your way on over baby, 
light the cigarette 
stacking up in between your teeth 
yeah, no regrets - baby I said 

It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through the night 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through the night 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through 

Woo 

It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through the night 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through the night 
It'll be alright 
If we make it through, make it through

from "The Cart", released August 31, 2016 
Recorded by CERAMIC ANIMAL at Daddy's Basement Studios 
Written produced and mixed by Warren Regan

"The Cart"

Dreams Via Memories

A couple a nasty boys

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Stalwarts on the London scene in the 90's. A heady mix of hammond fuelled beats and psychedelia mixed with pop.

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