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Legendary 4AD band Dif Juz’s bass player’s next project was a short-lived band, and their sole recordings are now seeing the light of day. Read more
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The story of how an album released out of love for a band caused the beginning of the end of a special relationship between a record label, its founder, and its fans. Read more
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From the outside, Belly should have been enjoying life. Their debut album, Star, was a surprise success. Leader Tanya Donelly was finally blossoming into a fine musician and songwriter, her years in Throwing Muses a stepping-stone to greater things. Alas, looks can be deceiving. “Going into the studio to make King,” Donelly says, with a Read more
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I’ve been reading Facing The Other Way, Martin Aston‘s excellent biography of the esteemed 4AD label, and in so doing I’ve been going back and exploring the label’s early records, ones that don’t necessarily have much in common with what the label would become. One such case is Cupol, who released one twelve-inch record, Read more
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One of the early 1990s more interesting groups was Bristol-based trio Earwig. Consisting of vocalist Kirsty Yates and guitarists Julian Tardo and Dmitri Voulis, their music was a nascent trip-hop/ambient mix, and predates Portishead and Massive Attack by a few years. Their first releases were 12″ EPs. Debut EP Hardly was released in 1990 and Read more
The Recoup 