Speakeasy! – The Toe Rag Sessions
Take a bunch of dedicated mod revivalists, all providing their own share of musical legacy throughout the last three decades, spice it all up with the presence of one genuine sixties mod, put them all […]
Take a bunch of dedicated mod revivalists, all providing their own share of musical legacy throughout the last three decades, spice it all up with the presence of one genuine sixties mod, put them all […]
A title like this, and a pair of spooky cat’s eyes staring right at me from the cover, providing not even a hint of something that I might like, seems as if I actually DO […]
Remember Shampoo from the mid’90s? Replace the trashy glam image with the kind of a bespectacled, nerdy-looking, cardigan-wearing pair of teenage girls, put them in the studio with an all-round pop-wiz (Michael Carpenter), let them […]
After hearing that The Eddies are scheduled for a whole bunch of forthcoming mod-revival tribute albums (The Manual Scan/Shambles, Squire, The Jet Set, The Risk), seeing three rather ordinary looking guys on the cover of […]
After introducing itself through the pair of contemporary mod-revival-laden compilations (Shake! & Shout! … reviewed elsewhere on PopDiggers pages) and a Mod-Aid charity single, here’s the first bunch of equally MODernistic EPs, bringing back the […]
Though all three of their self released EPs are graced with witty, Peggy Moffat-style mod artwork, it’s only with this third one that the “camera” captures THE sound AND the vision. Not that their Wire/XTC […]
About a year ago when I first listened to the demo versions of (most) of these tunes, I must say that I was a bit disappointed, having in mind the band’s previous releases under the […]
Though I can’t agree with the press release saying that they sound unlike anything else coming out of Liverpool at the moment, an emotion that I do second, is that they really might be the […]
One look at the Harvest-label designed CD is suggestive enough and the reason for it becomes clear after the first coupla notes of the acoustic-backed sitar line, leading towards an acid/psych/weird/prog-folk, or whatever tags there […]
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