Beyond brilliant double disc indie pop compilation on the fantastic Apricot label out of Germany. It's wave upon wave of riches, and the artist list speaks for itself...The Trembling Blue Stars (ex The Field Mice), Lloyd Cole, Birdie (ex The Dolly Mixture and East Village and often Saint Etienne members, with 2 gorgeous songs, including a dreamy sweet melancholy version of The Sea Urchins Sarah Records classic song "Please Rain Fall"), Orwell (brilliant French indie pop), Tahiti 80, Tiger Baby, Majestic, Would-Be-Goods (one of the greats, long time Cherry Red label artists who are a bit like Heavenly matched with Monochrome Set and a certain French aspect), Bart Davenport, Labrador, and more. Full artist/song list is below. Discs and digipack are in terrific condition. Not a promo. Please feel free to email with any questions. Thanks for looking!
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There used to be a famous german tv-commercial with a lady travelling
through southern europe and searching for the most delicate cherries
she could find. she was working for a company producing sweets. this
company was well known for using the best tasting cherries for their
chocolates only.
well, apricot is not literally producing chocolates with cherries in
it, but we're a small but sweet company with a love for sweet music -
so we felt intrigued. we travelled the world in order to find the most
delicious P!O!P!-bands as ingredients for a totally new drink -a daft
wild sparkling strawberry soda! first we went up north to denmark and
discovered three pure P!O!P!-sensations: tiger baby, superheroes and
labrador; in sweden we met the perishers and loved them from the first
chord. we travelled to the u.k. next and collected songs by trembling
blue stars and would-be-goods, musicians with releases on labels like
sarah, el, shinkhansen and matinée - only the best for our strawberry
soda was suitable. In england we met up with birdie and belasco;
english P!O!P!-tradition at it's best. then it was time to head up
transatlantic: we played golf with lloyd cole in maine, walked on the
shores of santa monica with bart davenport and ate tons of ice-cream
with majestic in new york. afterwards we took the concorde directly to
paris. there we added a bit of french flavour to the soda and assembled
songs by orwell and tahiti 80 - the true gourmets of P!O!P! then it was
time to return to germany. we took the train all away along the
rhine-valley. and when we got off, panamaformat and riviera were
waiting in the train-station to pick us up. what you're holding in your
hands right now is the result: highly concentrated P!O!P! probably it's
more like molasses, not a soda which you drink in one big gulp. just
one sip after the other.
daft wild sparkling strawberry soda could be too sweet and poppy if you
listen to it in one session. be prepared! so, off we go – searching for
new ingredients for a soda with another exciting flavour.