TRACKLIST:
| 1. | The Gentle Spring - Dodge The Rain 04:52 | ||
2. | Action Painting! - Just Who Are The Cockleshell Heroes? 02:21 | |||
3. | The Catenary Wires - Alone Tonight03:58 | |||
4. | The Hit Parade - Apple Tree 03:47 | |||
5. | Jetstream Pony - Look Alive! 03:53 | |||
6. | Soundwire - Everything Is Real 04:20 | |||
7. | Leaf Mosaic - The Branch Line 04:12 | |||
8. | Secret Shine - Captivate This Broken Love 04:15 | |||
9. | Even As We Speak - Beauty, You Will Break Us All 03:05 | |||
10. | GNAC - Double Ninth 01:52 | |||
11. | Tufthunter - Chemistry 02:46 | |||
12. | Useless Users - In This, The House Of The Solitary Bees 02:27 | |||
13. | The Orchids - A Final Love Song 02:47 | |||
14. | Wandering Summer - Wake The Silver Dancing Waves 03:20 | |||
15. | Mystic Village - Open Your Eyes 03:07 | |||
16. | Boyracer - Unknown Frequencies 03:05 | |||
17. | Robert Sekula - Pamela 03:20 | |||
18. | Vetchinsky Settings - Laugh While You Can 02:52 | |||
19. | St Christopher - Burnout '23 03:25 | |||
20. | Sepiasound - June In Her Eyes 03:23
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Various Artists - Under The Bridge 2 (Double LP) 2024
Under The Bridge 2 is the sequel to the celebrated 2022 compilation album that reunited groups and songwriters who had once recorded for cult label Sarah Records. The new album showcases the continuing creativity of a special group of musicians who have never rested on their laurels.
Bigger and more expansive than the first album, Under the Bridge 2 is a double LP, containing twenty brand new tracks. There is a huge range of material here, from intense, dark chamber pop to dense shoegaze to out-and-out indiepop. Exciting new groups are unveiled: The Gentle Spring (a new project by Michael Hiscock of The Field Mice); Vetchinsky Settings (a collaboration between Mark Tranmer and James Hackett of The Orchids); and Mystic Village (which features new songs by Robert Cooksey of The Sea Urchins).
You will also see familiar starry names like Even As We Speak, The Orchids and Secret Shine - bands whose line-ups have remained mostly unchanged since the 1990s. And there are established bands who didn’t appear on the first album but are now represented – bands like Action Painting! and The Hit Parade.
Most of the tracks are exclusive and unreleased: there’s the first new song from The Catenary Wires since 2021, a brand new fizzbomb from Jetstream Pony, a haunting instrumental from GNAC.
The emphasis of Under The Bridge is on the new. The bands’ shared history means they have a shared aesthetic, even a shared ethos – they all believe that the future is more important than the past. They are as independent and as uncompromising as ever, but they are still uncynical - and still excited about what Pop Music can be.