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Reverent version of an early (allegedly unreleased) Primal Scream 12-string indie-pop track. Bears the catalogue number Sarah 40.
'Tomorrow Ends Today' by The Springfields aka Ric Mench and Paul Chastain of Velvet Crush. Urgent and trebly with shards of Rickenbacker melody bursting from the vinyl. Byrds-y in tone and harmony, with a nod to C86 and one of the fey-est vocals you'll hear.
The whole of the new Pains Of Being Pure At Heart album is available preview. I think it's in the shops on Monday (28th March).
'Belong' is sounding better and better with every listen and the whole album is a sturdier affair than their exquisite debut, adding in new, sacrilegious flavours, like the synths on 'Heart In Your Heartbreak' and the sequencer lines in 'The Body'.
As ever, influences and echoes pop out of the mix and poke the older listener in the nostalgia-lode. So, 'Heaven's Gonna Happen Now' (for me, anyway) has a little bit of New Order or maybe Revenge about it and the spirit of (long forgotten Factory band) The Railway Children looms over lots of the album too - though they were a truly obscure band so that might just be a coincidence.
No-one would claim it to be the most original of sounds going but it is truly gorgeous stuff and well worth a listen.
