Shelflife Records is a Portland and San Francisco based record label run by Ed Mazzucco and Matthew Bice and has produced such bands as Burning Hearts, Days, Brittle Stars, and The Radio Dept. Shelflife traces its 1995 origins to a bedroom in a southern California suburb, where it began in conjunction with a mail order and… Continue reading Shelflife at Fat Angel Sings
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Primitives, Luxembourg Signal, Close Lobsters, and Lunchbox at Linear Tracking Lives
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Close Lobsters at This Wreckage
Somehow, I mostly missed Scottish band Close Lobsters back in the late 80s, but I didn’t completely miss them. At some point, I picked up a couple of their EPs used, and I still have their excellent song “Lovely Little Swan” on a bizarre 1990 K-Tel Records “modern rock” compilation called The Edge of Rock that I bought simply for the cheap… Continue reading Close Lobsters at This Wreckage
Close Lobsters at Big Takeover (print)
Somewhat overlooked during their initial run during the late 80s, Glasgow’s Close Lobsters mined the same vein of jangly, frenetic C86 guitar pop as many of their fellow countrymen. They recorded just two albums, Foxheads Stalk This Land (1987) and Headache Rhetoric (1989), before calling it a day, but fortunately, they’ve regrouped and now issued their… Continue reading Close Lobsters at Big Takeover (print)
Close Lobsters at Beat Surrender
First new recordings since 1989, and defintely worth waiting for, from C86 band Close Lobsters , the single Kunstwerk in Spacetime is out now on Shelflife and as a download with addition mixes at eMusic too. [Link]
Close Lobsters at porky prime cuts
MEANWHILE, A BRIEF mention for a Close Lobsters single (as Porky tends not to bother with singles), the two-trackKunstwerk In Spacetime EP (Shelflife records), on glorious 70-gram maroon vinyl. It’s the Scottish indie bands first release in a quarter of a century, and arrived at Porky Towers, rather curiously, a couple of days after I rediscovered their two… Continue reading Close Lobsters at porky prime cuts
Close Lobsters at Beethobear
Click through for a review of Kunstwerk in Spacetime from Beethobear in Taiwan. [Link]
Close Lobsters at Big Takeover
Picking up right where they left off, C86 compilation heroes, Scotland’s Close Lobsters, return with their first new recordings since 1989. Kunstwerk In Spacetime warps back to the ’80s with two jangling, dreamy, anthemic pop songs that would have played heavily in rotations on “modern rock” radio stations. “Now Time” counters the arguments that all greatness is over… Continue reading Close Lobsters at Big Takeover
Close Lobsters at Sound wav
July 2014 – Twenty plus years between music releases may give fans cause to think that there will never be anything further coming from a band. But after one such hiatus, the odd live performance thrown in here and there, indie pop legends ‘Close Lobsters’ have come back with not one, but two E.P releases… Continue reading Close Lobsters at Sound wav
Close Lobsters Video Debut and Stream at Brooklyn Vegan
Eighties-era Scottish indie pop band Close Lobsters reformed a few years ago and have been playing shows, including a fun set at NYC Popfest 2013. Last month, the band released the Kunstwerk in Spacetime EP, the group’s first new recordings in 25 years. The long-ish songs find them slipping right back into their psychedelic, jangly groove like no time… Continue reading Close Lobsters Video Debut and Stream at Brooklyn Vegan