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Luxembourg Signal at Leonard’s Lair

With former members of Aberdeen and Trembling Blue Stars making up their band and a Mighty Lemon Drop on production duties, you could be forgiven for believing that The Luxembourg Signal are trying to capture a feeling which started twenty years ago. In truth that’s not a bad prediction for there are large chunks of… Continue reading Luxembourg Signal at Leonard’s Lair

Hobbes Fanclub at Louder Than War

71. The Hobbes Fanclub – Up at Lagrange (Self-Released) Up At Lagrange was The Hobbes Fanclub’s (who we wrote about first in 2012) highly anticipated debut album. Catchy girl-boy vocals, wispy C86 jangles, lush distortion and overdriven guitars are this albums modus-operandi. Sarah Lay says of The Hobbes Fanclub: “Sepia-tinted indie pop; lo-fi reverb vocals, a background fuzz and… Continue reading Hobbes Fanclub at Louder Than War

Hobbes Fanclub at Big Takeover (print)

The moniker of this coed Bradford, England trio’s album may insinuate something like vintage ZZ Top, but that’s light years off course. HFC bowed in 2012 with the outstanding “Your Doubting Heart” single, aesthetically fulfilling the promise of by-gone no-hit wonders from their home turf’s C86 indie scene 25 years ago. Up follows suit with… Continue reading Hobbes Fanclub at Big Takeover (print)

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

Hobbes Fanclub at The Tipping Point

‘Stay Gold’ is the second song from the long overdue debut LP from The Hobbes Fanclub ‘Up At Lagrange’, and it’s accompanying video is perhaps a perfect companion for this Bradford trio’s sound. The video is grainy, hand held holiday footage the band took in Paris, and has that perfect home movie sense of nostalgia, familiarity and a warm fuzzy… Continue reading Hobbes Fanclub at The Tipping Point

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)

Hobbes Fanclub at So Said K

It was six years in the making, but The Hobbes Fanclub‘s debut LP, Up At Lagrange, is finally here. I’m going to have to agree with everyone else, too – it was worth the wait. I remember hearing “Your Doubting Heart” for the first time. It must have been just prior to my NYC Popfest 2013 weekend, where I… Continue reading Hobbes Fanclub at So Said K