Cause & Effect: The Pastels + Goon Sax (New Release Alert)

The Pastels "Nothing to Be Done" from their 1993 Truckload of Trouble.

The Goon Sax "Up to Anything" who are from Australia and just released a charming C86 jangle-pop record.

A Rose that Blooms Forever

There isn't one music project by Rose Melberg I haven't wanted to take on a picnic and pledge my undying love to. She is the master melody. Her sweet voice often paired with a fuzzy guitar has been labeled everything from a Riot Grrrl to twee to cuddle-core to sweater-Pop. We can all agree that whatever you want to call it, her myriad of musical identities have been consistently memorable including her newest band called Knife Pleats. If her Discogs page is accurate, she is on over 100 different releases so needless to say there is a TON of releases to explore.

Here are just a handful of them.

Band to Watch : Mercury Girls

At last! A band that uses Girls in their name and has not just one female member but TWO!

More importantly they are also GREAT.

I give you Philadephia noisy jangle poppers Mercury Girls. I don't have a release date for it yet but apparently their debut single will be coming out through one of my favorite record labels, Slumberland. The band also features members of : Literature, Little Big League, and Pet Milk. 

I love this band / song too! 

2015 Favorite : Eerie Summer

Do you like to cuddle? Do you like lo-fi, dreamy, bedroom pop? Do love female fronted C86 twee bands (think of the early days of Camera Obscura or The Concretes)? If you answer yes to any of these questions, I present to you a charming boy/girl duo called Eerie Summer.

I don't know how a band that features one member from Russia and the other from Finland came to be, but I am sure glad they did. Sometimes a little mystery is nice.

Heavenly's Family Tree

It would be in poor taste to name my blog Attagirl! and not pay tribute to a spectacular song that carries the same name by the UK band Heavenly.

This Oxford, England band that lived from the late '80s to the mid '90s has a large family tree of bands before and after them that are worthy of mentioning and exploring to.

Talulah Gosh came first in the mid '80s.

After Heavenly disbanded there was Marine Research.

And that brings us to Tender Trap.

Ex member Peter Momtchiloff  has been in a number of bands including Scarlett's Well (also includes Bid of The Monochrome Set) and the Would Be Goods.

Most recently there is The Catenary Wires that features Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey.

 Happy exploring! There are several days worth of listening built into this family tree of bands.