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Five Things We Liked This Week - 22/11/19

Flying Calvittos - Squeal Like A Pig

Color The Bank (FLEXI)

From their "s/t" debut album, out March 31st, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

(Trouble In Mind Records) RAYS "Drop Dead"

From their 's/t' album, due out May 5th, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Mountain Movers "Angels Don't Worry" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Not Alone

From the album "Lost and Found", released in North America, UK by Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com) on CD April 10th & LP on June 29th, 2018.

En Attendant Ana "The Violence Inside" (Trouble In Mind Records)

From their debut album "Lost and Found", released via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com) on CD/Digital April 6th, & LP on June 29th!

En Attendant Ana "Night"

Taken from their eponymous debut album, out August 24th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Ethers

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Ethers "Rip Off" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Taken from their third album "Illegal Moves", out February 22nd, 2019 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Illegal Moves

Beautiful Crystals

Sunwatchers "Beautiful Crystals" (Trouble In Mind Records)

You tried to wait
You tried to show me
You could relate
You’re on my side

And in your way
You think you owe me
A price to pay
That’s unsettled 

Sure and sure enough

And so decades 
Begin to own me
I lose the dates 
I lost the time

A slow decay
I lost the glow of you
You couldn’t relate
I’m on your side

Sure and sure enough


For The Win

For the Win

First single from the Parisian quintet's second album "Juillet", out January 24th, 2020 via Trouble In Mind Records.
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En Attendant Ana "Words" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Acerbic yet winsome Scottish indiepoppers The Just Joans return with the dazzlingly maudlin The Private Memoirs and Confessions of the Just Joans, a deeply personal collection of songs that hazily recall the past and contemplate the futility of the future. 

A titular twist on the classic gothic horror novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by compatriot James Hogg, the new album is the follow-up to 2017’s You Might Be Smiling Now… and contains the kind of melodies and mockery that led Uncut to class the band as the point at which “Stephin Merritt lies down with The Vaselines.”

At the forefront remain the mischievous lyrics and heartfelt vocals of siblings David and Katie Pope, aided and abetted by Chris Elkin on lead guitar, Fraser Ford on bass guitar and Jason Sweeney on drums. Yet it is the recruitment of multi-instrumentalist Arion Xenos and guest appearance of Butcher Boy’s Alison Eales to arrange strings that have helped elevate the band’s music to new heights. 

Their progression is most noticeable on lead single “Dear Diary, I Died Again today”, a painfully beautiful admission of everyday anxiety and “When Nietzsche Calls”, the triumphant cry of a spurned lover revelling in the misery of their ex to a backdrop of trumpets and violins. The juxtaposition of the fragility shown in these tracks with the menace of “Wee Guys (Bobby’s Got A Punctured Lung)” – an observation and understanding of the casual violence that once cast a shadow over the band’s hometown – highlights The Just Joans’ ability to seamlessly flip between sensitivity and danger, and sums up why Highway Queens described them as the “perfect Glasgow kiss.”

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of the Just Joans is a veritable smorgasbord of misery, longing and unrequited love; stories of small town resentments, half-forgotten school friends, failing relationships and awkward workplace conversations. As David explains: “It’s a collection torn from the pages of the diary I haven’t kept over the past 25 years. There are songs about places and people I vaguely remember, feelings I think that I once may have felt and the onset of middle-aged ennui.”

Despite entering new territory with the addition of brass and strings, they have nevertheless maintained the DIY ethos that made them darlings of the underground indie-pop scene, with each song on the album recorded and produced by the band in various gloomy bedrooms around Glasgow.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of The Just Joans

The One I Loathe The Least

The Just Joans - The One I Loathe The Least

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En Attendant Ana "Words" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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