C 1. Ivor MacGyver - Saliva 2. Photon - La fuite en arrière (En-joy) 3. Guards! Guards! - Go Nowhere 4. Field Glass - Postcards 5. Franklin’s Kite and Postal Blue - Mumble 6. Edine - Where The Sidewalk Ends 7. The Color Waves - Adjustments 8. Warped Kiss - You Always Find a Way 9. Crimson & The Sunbird - Where Did the Day Go? 10. After The Noise - Those Were The Days License: CAll songs on this album are licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution – Noncommercial – No Derivative Works), except the songs by Guards! Guards! (copyright Monster Bobby/Lisa Bouvier) and After The Noise (copyright Robert Post/Ingrid Støy). This means that you are free to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work, as long as the use is non-commercial, and as long as you credit the artist, and as long as you don’t edit the artist’s work in any way. If you want to use the song in other ways than the ones mentioned above, you have to get the artist’s permission to do so. More info here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 The songs explicitly mentioned above as not licensed under Creative Commons can not be shared freely outside of this compilation. 1 Volume C: The noisy, but calm one... Volume C is both the noisiest and Mayfield from Victoria and Jacob. They Jon Kohen and Warped Forest gives us the calmest of the three Between combine Enderby’s folky pedal harmonium brushed snare drums, strings and swirling and calm vocals with Jacob’s drum machine, cymbals on their duet “You Will Always Find Two Waves - The Second Wave and sings about the hidden stories lying in a Way” - and lovely, harmonic vocals. volumes. It is full of contrasts, like boxes in antique shops and car boot sales. the sea and the waves. One minute Former Hefner drummer Antony calm and quiet, the next minute Postal Blue and Marc Elston from bands like Harding gives us an acoustic start on his raging and wild. The Liberty Ship and Bulldozer Crash have collaboration with Italians Loud Off and made a song that has been a favourite for Adam Kirk. The calm start of the song ends This volume starts with a BANG, with the many of the people who have pre-listened in a crescendo of piano, drums, strings, energetic “Saliva” from The Just Joans and to this volume. “Mumble” is an indiepop guitars and - do I hear a banjo in there as The Spook School. Silja in the team have song that in many ways reminds me of the well? been dancing around her kitchen table to Go-Betweens’ style of playing. This is the this for months. song that brings together the calm waves The last song on the compilation comes and the rougher ones. from two Norwegians, Robert Post and Next track, from Watoo Watoo and MAUP, Ingrid Støy. Since Post can mean “After” continues the energy, with a track in the Lisle Mitnik (Fireflies) and Edine (The and “Støy” in Norwegian means “Noise”, style of both Stereolab and Joy Division. It Marshmallow Kisses) have worked together they call themselves After The Noise. Their has beautiful vocals from Watoo Watoo’s before, and their whispery vocals, acoustic song has lovely, jazzy vocals, a choir-like Pascale, and lots of spacey synth swirls. guitars and glockenspiel works perfectly chorus and layers of both acoustic and together in their beautiful “Where The electric guitars. An evening song, - and a Monster Bobby and Lisa Bouvier have Sidewalk Ends”. beautiful one to end the album with. made the upbeat synthpop tune “Let’s Go Nowhere”, with a repetitive synth sequence, The relaxed atmosphere created by Lisle strings, lots of handclaps and Lisa’s relaxed and Edine continues on the spine tinglingly Knut ePop, 03.06.14 and beautiful voice on top. beautiful “Adjustments” by The Color Waves aka Alison Eales and Garry Hoggan. I love The tempo slows down, and Enderby’s both of their voices, and am so happy that Room enters the scene together with Jacob both of them sing on this one. PS. CHECK OUT VOLUMES A + B: http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/ 2 Ivor MacGyver - Saliva (David Pope from The Just Joans + The Spook School) Lyrics by David Pope Who are Ivor MacGyver: Music by David Pope & The Spook School The Just Joans are a lo-fi indie band from the west Recorded & Mixed in Adam’s bedroom of Scotland. They released a debut album, “Last Tango in Motherwell”, on Ivan Lendil Records back Mastered by Subsequent Mastering in 2006. Since then they have released a bunch of EPs and an album on wonderful WeePop Records. : “We quite The Just Joans are currently working on a new EP ADAM (SPOOK SCHOOL) which they will hopefully release later this year on wanted to use the opportunity of having their very own Oh So Sensitive label. a band that could potentially only ever The Spook School are four friends from Edinburgh have one song to choose a band name that using a raucous mixture of indie-pop, feedback and ABOVE: DAVID. BELOW: THE SPOOK SCHOOL links with the song title. So we chose ‘Ivor nudity to create a fun live show. Their debut album (PHOTO: MICHAEL WOOD). MacGyver’ cause ‘Ivor MacGyver - Saliva’ ‘Dress Up’ came out on Fortuna POP! in 2013 with lead single ‘I’ll Be Honest’ gaining airplay on has a pretty nice phonetic ring to it, and 6music with Steve Lamacq, being playlisted on we quite want to make up a silly music Amazing Radio and the video being described by video where we splice up clips from the Clash Magazine as “A joyous, colourful, comedic show ‘MacGyver’ to make it look like he’s visual rant”. The Guardian dubbed The Spook School “Sweetly shambolic”, and having seen them the ‘single boy’ in the song.” live we promise you’ll be beaming for days after. Such an energy and happiness kick! Ivor MacGyver made a computer game The two bands have known each other since especially for this release: playing a few gigs together then dancing and http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/19795631/#fullscreen drinking too much at various indie-discos (namely Edinburgh’s Unpop!). They have laughed and cried and vomited together on numerous occasions. The song was written by David a few years ago and initially called ‘Single Boy’ as a little nod towards ‘Single Girl’ by Lush. The Spook School, according to http://thespookschool.com David, “did a great job and turned a https://facebook.com/pages/The-Just-Joans/40408923713 slight wee acoustic song into a snarling indie disco monster!“ 3 Photon - La fuite en arrière (En-joy) (Watoo Watoo + MAUP) MAUP (YANNICK) Who are Photon: Music: Yannick Rault Lyrics: Michaël Korchia Watoo Watoo is back with “Une si longue attente” - an album released by Seattle-based label Jigsaw Records. Over the years, Watoo Watoo has released four albums and three EPs on various MICHAËL: “Watoo Watoo met Yannick of labels. The music was strictly indiepop in the early MAUP on a forum dedicated to analog synth. years, but the band has been able to renew itself. I introduced myself and gave him a link to Depending on the songs, the influences range from 60s to 80s pop. Warbling bass lines, crystal- our music. Yannick listened and loved it. He clear guitars and vintage keyboards all have a asked Pascale if she could sing on one of his good place in the band’s music. Watoo Watoo primarily consists of Pascale and Michaël, who live songs – the one on this compilation. Then we in Bordeaux. Michaël usually records the songs at decided to work on more songs. We’ve never home, sometimes e-mails friends to help with the guitars, and then asks Pascale to add her lovely met as we live 700km from each other, but voice. it’s quite fun to work via internet anyway!” Yannick started as a drummer, then played in new wave/electro bands, influenced by The Cure, Joy Photon have worked on many songs since Division, Depeche Mode. He eventually switched to the guitar, the bass and sometimes the keyboard. this first one! Sometimes they start from He started doing music with computers in 1995 has been working solo since 2000 (soundtracks for a song written by Michaël, sometimes by video projects, cartoons, TV shows). His own band Yannick. Both play the instruments and then is called MAUP and he has played instruments in the band This Grey City since 2013. Pascale adds her vocals. The band wanted a retro-futuristic style, and https://facebook.com/photonphotonphoton got their name from one of Michaël’s vintage https://youtube.com/watch?v=sRhm-hK-ado cameras - of the brand Photon. http://watoowatoo.net/ MUSIC VIDEO! 4 Guards! Guards! - Go Nowhere (Monster Bobby + Lisa Bouvier) Written, performed and recorded by Bobby Barry Who are Guards! Guards!: and Lisa Bouvier Monster Bobby is the name of the solo project Mixed by Seb Falcone Bobby Barry has kept up off-and-on in downtime from playing with The Pipettes and A Little Orchestra “and whatever else”. There was one Monster Bobby album in 2007 on the Hypnote “Lisa said she Recording Concern, plus a few 7”s & 3” and so BOBBY: forth on the likes of Unpopular and Hugpatch. liked the band name because Just recently Bobby started a new band called Far Rainbow. it was both funny and London-based Swedish riding instructor/pop pretentious. I just like band chanteuse Lisa Bouvier says; “I am, as well as doing solo stuff, in every single band and project names that seem to contain on the planet (like The Flatmates, The Proctors, Satan & Megastar..