SPEARMINT | LONDON | UK
Spearmint were formed in North London in 1995, and released a series of singles between 1995 and 1998. Songs For The Colour Yellow – a compilation of singles - was released in 1998 on Rough Trade Japan/UK. Their debut album proper, A Week Away, was released in 1999 to massive critical acclaim. 2001 and 2002 saw the band recording and releasing their sophomore album, A Different Lifetime, which was named album of the year by Uncut. In 2003, Spearmint released My Missing Days, and the band has just released their 4th album, A Leopard And Other Stories on hitBACK (UK) and Apricot (Germany).
This EP features 2 exclusive songs and 2 songs from the new album.
IPX
No. 5
Spearmint | Novillero
Spearmint:
1 Thomas (streaming mp3)
2 Girls With Guitars
3 The Beautiful Things
4 A Happy Ending
Novillero:
5 The Hypothesist (streaming mp3)
6 The Art of Carrying On
7 The Rules
8 Let's Pull Over Here (Boy Version)
NOVILLERO | WINNIPEG | CANADA
Novillero formed in 1999 from a number of well-established Winnipeg groups, including Rod Slaughter (Duotang); Rusty Matyas (The Waking Eyes); Sean Stevens, Roberta Dempster, and Scott Hildebrant (Transonic); and Dave Berthiaume (Bulletproof Nothing). This lineup released the mod-influenced lounge pop album The Brindleford Follies on Endearing in 2001, but disbanded in 2002. After nearly a year apart, they reformed and found themselves heading in a new direction, relying less on spacey psychedelia and more on keyboard driven pop hooks with a mod influence. Grant Johnston joined recently to take over bass duties, as Rusty has become increasingly busy with The Waking Eyes.
These four songs are new and previously unreleased.
Credits:
All songs written by Shirley Lee.
Copyright: hitBACK Records & hitBACK Music 2004
Credits:
Sean Stevens - guitars
Dave
Berthiaume - drums and vocals
Rod Slaughter - vocals, keyboards and bass
Grant Johnson - vocals, keyboards and bass
Additional
Musicians:
Frank Nolan - Saxaphone (track 1)
Rusty Matyas - additional guitar (track 2 and 3), Trumpet (track 2, 3
and 4)
Shelley Marshall - Accordion (track 4)
Jack Jonasson - tambourine (track 3)
Track 1,
2 and 4 written by Rod Slaughter, recorded by Lloyd Peterson and Cam Loeppky
at Private Ear, and mixed by Cam Loeppky. Track 3 written, recorded and
mixed by Grant Johnson.
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