Back to blogging in 2019, back to finding new sounds, new music on the web. Not much news yet on the Cloudberry side though in a week I’ll be flying to Lima, Peru, for a week. That means that if you are in Lima and you’d like to order some records and save in shipping send me a message and we can figure it out.

Now, what is new in the world of indiepop?

Milkmustache: well, this is a Christmas song, so maybe it is not what you wanted, but you could save the song for next Christmas? I mean, it is really pretty, the season shouldn’t matter. The new song by the Chinese band is called “Christmas Song for Christmas Night” and it is available on the Boring Productions Bandcamp.

Furry Loser: Rolf is from Costa Rica. He likes recording pop songs in his bedroom. He has put together an EP called “Loser Dance Party”. Only one of his songs is available to stream. It is called “Marco & Marty”. It is based on a web coming of the same name. It is bouncy, poppy and fun. Will the other three songs, “Don’t Like You Anymore”, “Tom (working title)”, “Loser Dance Party”, on the EP available to listen someday?

Golden Teardrops: our friends Ryan and Lei have re-released (and re-mastered) their song “A Summer Escape” and a demo version of “Pieces of Our Love”. As expected they are top songs. So give yourself 5 minutes and check them out!

In Space: this Singapore project by Juan Sawitt, a 19-year old “with a computer”, sounds really nice. Their latest is the song “Heartache” which he uploaded just before Christmas on his Bandcamp. Lyrics are available to sing along and there is also another song worth listening called “January” that dates from last March.

Pleasures Pale: the Dayton, OH, band that I interviewed just a bit ago have uploaded on Soundcloud a compilation of various live performance recordings from 1986. Two tracks come from a gig at the Canal Street Tavern and the two others are live rehearsals. The jangly guitars on the first track, “Muscleman”, are superb! And then you get “An Awkward Kind Thinks Twice”, “Life is But a Dream” and “Uneasy’s Disease”. All being great of course!

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So far, after searching and searching I could only find one interesting tidbit about the band Big House. They played a gig at the legendary Rock Garden on November 10th, 1985. As many of you know this was a venue in London, in the Covent Garden area, that among other feats The Smiths played their first London gig there. These days sadly it is an Apple store. The worst thing ever of course.

The problem is of course the band’s name. It is not original enough to search for them. I can get all sorts of results on Google and even worst the 7″ I know they released doesn’t even get listed on Discogs, 45cat or Rateyourmusic. It seems as it doesn’t exist.

I don’t even know what was on the B side. I only know, thanks to Youtube, that the A side was called “Real Eyes”. I know it is a superb song, with female vocals, catchy, fun, upbeat, all sorts of things I like. The guitar is bouncy, the drums rolls at the start of the song are ace. What more can I say? It is the sort of song that should be included in an obscure female fronted UK indie compilation. But how can one do that if you don’t even know who the members where?

On a Japanese blog I read that the label that put the record out was based in Cambridge. Sadly it doesn’t tell what was the name of the label. It also looks as if the record didn’t have a picture sleeve. The information is really scarce.

This band and single are a true indiepop mystery. We have two cities, London and Cambridge, as possible places where the band was from. Or maybe not even. We only know one date, 1985. And one song, “Real Eyes”. This time I will need any help I can get. Anyone remember them?

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Listen
Big House – Real Eyes