I've written about Magic Marker Records before here. I just received a promotional email from them, and am sufficiently impressed by their releases to be willing to pass the information on here. So here goes:
The Manhattan Love Suicides.
From the front page of the Rough Trade Records website:
For anyone who loves fuzzed up guitar assaults, feedback, hit and run 10 minute gigs, female vocals, melodic pop, ear splitting minimalist noise...and hates a hell of a lot of other things - we give you the Manhattan Love Suicides debut album. Not since Juniper Moon have we been this excited about an indie pop band. Think The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Shop Assistants, Galaxie 500, The Velvet Underground, The Rosehips, The Golden Dawn and Meat Whiplash. the album is full of fuzzed up noisy pop music with a pounding beat and heart breaking female vocals combined with slower, less raucous sounding tunes. Every song is a indie pop nugget and we cannot praise this album enough. CD version on Magic Marker and the vinyl will follow soon on Squirrel Records.
The Manhattan Love Suicides - Suzy Jones
The Faintest Ideas - "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
The Faintest Ideas are what happens when you find four guys that lived on a steady diet of The Fall, Television Personalities, Fugazi, Beat Happening, The Ramones, Buzzcocks added with the pop friendly country of Sweden and other Gothenburg acts like Love is All, Jens Lekman, El Perro Del Mar. Just to throw off the balance add in The Lucksmiths, Dear Nora, The Wedding Present and British C86 bands. It is what record store clerks and music snobs will be slobbering over. After self releasing several cd-rs and a single they started to release other bands under their DIY label Yellow Mica Recordings. Following in the footsteps of punk rock and indie pop has brought us the simple and exciting "What Goes Up Must CalmDown". While most of the band is nearing the age of 30 the songs and attitudes contain a youthful enthusiasm and most fall below the 2 minute mark. The break neck speed of the songs mixed in with the blue collar themes and references to the kids has an authenticity of absolute charm. The band was known as Javelins and changed their name before this their debut album to avoid confusion of a U.S. band by the same name.
The Faintest Ideas - Nosebleeders on the Track
Sounds pretty cool, eh?
The Manhattan Love Suicides.
From the front page of the Rough Trade Records website:
For anyone who loves fuzzed up guitar assaults, feedback, hit and run 10 minute gigs, female vocals, melodic pop, ear splitting minimalist noise...and hates a hell of a lot of other things - we give you the Manhattan Love Suicides debut album. Not since Juniper Moon have we been this excited about an indie pop band. Think The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Shop Assistants, Galaxie 500, The Velvet Underground, The Rosehips, The Golden Dawn and Meat Whiplash. the album is full of fuzzed up noisy pop music with a pounding beat and heart breaking female vocals combined with slower, less raucous sounding tunes. Every song is a indie pop nugget and we cannot praise this album enough. CD version on Magic Marker and the vinyl will follow soon on Squirrel Records.
The Manhattan Love Suicides - Suzy Jones
The Faintest Ideas - "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
The Faintest Ideas are what happens when you find four guys that lived on a steady diet of The Fall, Television Personalities, Fugazi, Beat Happening, The Ramones, Buzzcocks added with the pop friendly country of Sweden and other Gothenburg acts like Love is All, Jens Lekman, El Perro Del Mar. Just to throw off the balance add in The Lucksmiths, Dear Nora, The Wedding Present and British C86 bands. It is what record store clerks and music snobs will be slobbering over. After self releasing several cd-rs and a single they started to release other bands under their DIY label Yellow Mica Recordings. Following in the footsteps of punk rock and indie pop has brought us the simple and exciting "What Goes Up Must CalmDown". While most of the band is nearing the age of 30 the songs and attitudes contain a youthful enthusiasm and most fall below the 2 minute mark. The break neck speed of the songs mixed in with the blue collar themes and references to the kids has an authenticity of absolute charm. The band was known as Javelins and changed their name before this their debut album to avoid confusion of a U.S. band by the same name.
The Faintest Ideas - Nosebleeders on the Track
Sounds pretty cool, eh?
I got my copy of the The Manhattan Love Suicides album through the post today. Review to follow!
Yay for the Faintest Ideas they are great and they put out my bands' record on their label.