27
Aug

Day 534

Starrgazy: just discovered this English band formed by Lucie Hill and Benjamin Wesley Morgan. They like to make dreamy, hazy, shoegaze with pop influences. Their latest song is titled “Octopus” and it sounds great! I recommend it!

Silent Coast: previously I’ve recommended the Doncaster, UK, band 93MillionMilesFromTheSun. As you know they are a fine shoegaze project. Well, there is now a solo project by Nick Noble from that band. It is called Silent Coast and has released on Bandcamp a 11 song album with the same name. It’s a good listen!

Snow Coats: the latest from the Doetinchem, Netherlands, band is a digital single titled “Right Fit”. I believe I had recommended the band last August, a year ago, when they released “Navy Blue”. Since then they released the “Pool Girl EP” and this new song. Fun pop!

Colatura: Digo Best, Jennica Best, Meredith Lampe and Alex Kirkpatrick are Colatura, a New York based band. They consider themselves a neo-surf indie band. I am not that familiar with that term. I do know though that their latest effort, the digital single “King Kalm” is a fine slice of guitar pop. And that’s good enough for me to recommend them!

Collision Theory: almost all digital singles this Friday! That’s ok! We can finish this week with Collision Theory from Oxford, UK. The song they have on Bandcamp, the only song actually, is titled “Shut Down”. It is a fun poppy, catchy track. It may be my favourite this Friday. So if you only hvae time to check one song, check out this poppy with punky attitude track.

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I continue exploring Soundcloud for rare indiepop sounds! And it is always a pleasure to hit the jackpot.

I have found 3 songs by The Carrol Singers. These are “Loosen Up”, “Made a Vow” and “Splitting Sides”.

I have listened to the three and decided I really really love “Made a Vow”, what a track! Perfect pop with boy/girl vocals. That’s just perfect! Somedays I think I want to start a flexi label and release songs like this. Would I recover the investment? Would people be interested in gems like this? I wonder… I would for sure!

There is very little information about the band. We have the names of the band members, Paul, Ian, Marie and Gary Lincoln. We know the last name of the last member as the Soundcloud is his! That’s why! The only other detail we have is that the band was around just for about a year, from 1988 to 1989.

The band seems to have started after the demise of the band The Fact. You can find many songs by the band on Soundcloud. The Fact wasn’t exactly indiepop, more of a post-punk/rock outfit.

Later on, after The Carrol Singers, Gary would be in a band I’ve been meaning to write about, The Saving Graces, who were around 1989 to 1990. The song “Loosen Up” would also be played and recorded by The Saving Graces. Yeah, I’ll write about them in my next post. Two songs by The Saving Graces would end up on a compilation called “Extract of Breeze A” on the German label Alphyen Viwit sometime in the early 90s (there is a CDR version of this one too, probably in the late 90s). And all four songs we know were on the “Breeze 4” double cassette compilation by the same label in 1994. But that’s another story…

Enjoy these songs by The Carrol Singers! Hopefully we’ll find more info soon! At least we need to know where were they from! Or if they had any release? Were these tapes released as a demo tape?! Any info will be appreciated!

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The Carrol Singers – Made a Vow

One Response to “:: The Carrol Singers”

As a Dutch guy it is always nice to hear some great new music from my country.

Your choice for Snow Coats is excellent.
Another day at your blog is another nice discovery of good tunes.

Henk Stinges
August 30th, 2021