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Lot of solo efforts & side projects: Dominque Dalcan (Snooze), Paul Haig (Josef K), David Westlake (The Servants), Beth Gibbons (Portishead). A few early Factory Records collaborators, plus some 90s Shibuya and Japanese shoegaze bands. Best thing I've listened to: Eamon Ridgeway and Adonis Kleio's Bangaz Ringin. Can't find a single thing about this record online, front half is bar band country (sometimes sounds like Sparklehorse, sometimes like Steve Miller Band), back half is fully doing a Drake impersonation. It's all run through some kind of compression filter that sounds like shit. I love it.
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I listened to a sickening amount of Mojave 3 during my cross country drive. Highlights that were new to me: The Aluminum Group, Chicago project started in the mid 90s with a lovely lounge sound and tight pop songs; The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group, two 90s records out of Minneapolis, at its worst its very pleasant bossa, at its best (imo) sounds like some of the best British indie from the previous decade (in Goodbye to All That, off of Sniff 1998, Jim explicitly references a lot of those groups); Single Gun Theory's, Flow, River of My Soul, I mean, come on. Amazing.
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Early UK indie, Dunedin sound, jangle pop, twee pop — mid-80's to mid-90's with some exceptions — Cherry Red, Creation, Flying Nun, LTM, Shelflife, Sarah, Egg. Never going to reach the bottom of this pit, I think. Best singles that were new to me: Ahprahran, The Sugargliders; Don't Let Your Son Grow Up To Be A Cowboy, Jazzateers; i really do love penelope, Hey Paulette; Hip Hip, Hurrah! (the whole Boxed record is good).