As mentioned on my post about Liquid Cats, there is another band related to this project called Shimmer. You may already have checked out the songs on the Soundcloud account that someone under the name Prime Senior has put together. If you haven’t, then I would suggest checking them out.

Shimmer seems to have been the band that came after Liquid Cats. The timeline looks like that. We still don’t know who was behind this band. There’s the one photo of the same guy on all tracks. It is fair to assume that he was behind these projects. But what instrument did he play? Was he the vocalist? Did he write the songs?

In the case of Shimmer there are more songs than for Liquid Cats. There are 5 tracks that date from 1994. All of them are categorized as demos. These are “Falling Down”, “Freedom”, “Leaving the all Behind”, “Like a Soldier” and “Private Lives”.

The songs are great, they have this nice lo-fi feeling to them. They don’t sound exactly like The Javelins from Sweden circa 2004 or so, but for some reason I’m reminded to them.

I was also wondering on my previous post if by any chance they called themselves Shimmer because of The Flatmates classic song of the same name. Maybe. But maybe not, it is not like shimmer is a rare word. But could be, it is clear the band loved indiepop.

There is not much more to say about Shimmer. No information is available. My guess is that they were English but that’s where I stop guessing. Anyone have a clue? Remember them?

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Listen
Shimmer – Falling Down