The Photocopies: two new songs from Sean Turner, the Michigan-based Londoner. These two songs, “Like Teenage Love” and “Grown-Up Political Discourse” are songs that for being too rowdy didn’t end up on the band’s upcoming mini-album “Hopelessly Devoted”.

Slaney Bay: now we head to London to discover this trio. Their latest is a lovely dreamy and mellow pop single titled “LS6”. There’s not much info on them on their Bandcamp, but going through the band’s website I find out that the band is formed by Caitlin Whitley, William Nicola-Thompson and Joel Martin, all friends since childhood.

Aerofall: here’s “Rh”, an 8-song album by this band from Rostov-on-Don, Russia’s shoegaze capital. The album is out now on the Japanese label Hands and Moment, and it is really nice. Yana Komeshko’s vocals are ace and the melodies really enjoyable.

SPOOL: now to Tokyo, for more shoegazer sounds. SPOOL is a girl band formed by Ayumi, Sumika, Minako and Aran. The four have just releaseed their latest single “(Image for) Drawing on Canvas”.

3 A.M. Again: the Massachusetts band has appeared on the blog many times. The latest EP has 9 songs, it is more of an album than EP. It is called “Cherry Street EP” and was recorded last summer. It is now available digitally and continues exploring the sound the band has been crafting in previous releases. Sweet, classic pop.

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I think there might have been a confusion about King Buffalo on our friend stoneeyedkiller Youtube channel. I was happily surprised when I heard their song “Run Away” that was uploaded to said channel, and I was curious about it. It was tagged as a London, UK, band, but I have started to believe it may be a London, Ohio, band.

You see, a demo tape of theirs dating from 1987 was uploaded to Soundcloud by an account called Cleveland Live Music. Behind this account there’s a music fan called Kenneth Dixon from Chagrin Falls, which is a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.

He mentions that King Buffalo handed him a tape in the late 80s when he saw them in a pub. Kenneth at that time was working in London he says. And he has tagged the music as Americana and describe their music as American Brit sound. So everything points to me that they were local, from Ohio.

The demo included 7 songs, and they all are on Soundcloud. The songs are “I Break Down”, “One Day”, “Run Away”, “Rainbow”, “How Much Higher” and “You Got Love”.

Sadly he doesn’t have any other details about the band. I wonder if the tape he has, the demo, had any more info on the sleeve. Band members names? An address? He hasn’t uploaded the sleeve…

Online it proves very hard to find any other information about them. So I am hoping someone remembers them. Would be good to confirm if they hailed from such a small town in Ohio. And if they have more music? Involved in other bands?

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King Buffalo – Run Away