The boy who is happy when it rains

Quote:
"And I'll always be young, silly and naive enough to think that, sometimes, I'm the only person in the world who ever had the thought to turn over a piece of vinyl to see what could be hiding on the other side."

 

Tompaulin: Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
I can't believe it's been three years or so since these records overwhelmed me and took over my tiny bedroom, my tiny mind, my tiny world. It was all too easy back then, what with me being a fool for anyone willing to romanticise the weekend heroes and sm

Hormones in Abudance: Old people are people too
And I know that 'Bad songs, bad people' has a cutting 'wish I'd thought of that' lyric and a tune to make you dance yourself stupid. And the fact that every four-minute disco should end with chiming guitars and in-and-out of love girl/boy vocals like on '

The Metric Mile: How to beat the SAT (Cd-r EP)
The 5 songs on the EP are as joyful sounding as they are desperate sounding to me; I've often wondered how jangling strings across major chords could make that happen.

Trembling Blue Stars: Southern skies appear brighter EP
So then, lurking bashfully at song number 4 on the new Trembling Blue Stars e.p is 'Hurry home through the crowds'. Gently plucking guitars, handclaps and words about being so much in love couldn't sound much better than this.

Milky Wimpshake: Needed: Heart Handbook 7"
Calling this Twee-Punk because the two words hate each other and I like seeing them together. Bashing out three chord rhythms on guitars whilst playing keyboards with one finger.

ANT/Airliner: Imprings of emotion - split 7" ep
I'm glad people still make records that sound like this. Tortured souls alone with sensitive, barely there, voices. Kristian Rosengren (Airliner) and Ant Harding (ANT) ply the same fragile bedroom acoustics on this split 7" ep.

Bearsuit: Chargr/What, you've never seen snow before?(single)
'Chargr' sounds like the best pop song, ltd edition vinyl, can't make its mind up, 'Fuck you' to marketed chart pop pap ever.

Her web diary
But then I don't talk like I write, I write to say all those things I cannot say in real life. And maybe you do that too, maybe you are just like me.

An interview with the Metric Mile
Indie-pop has been demonized and mis-characterized by some (I don't want to name names, but you know who you are) in the same way liberal has been slandered by conservatives. It's about time it was reclaimed.