Description
Title: Under The Bridge 2 (Various Artists)
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Skepwax
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5055869550055
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2024-04-19
Number of Discs: 1
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 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 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 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.
Tracks:
1.1 The Gentle Spring – Dodge the Rain (Previously in the Field Mice)
1.2 Action Painting! – Just Who Are the Cockleshell Heroes?
1.3 The Catenary Wires – Alone Tonight (Previously in Heavenly)
1.4 The Hit Parade – Apple Tree
1.5 Jetstream Pony – Look Alive! (Previously in Aberdeen)
1.6 Soundwire – Everything Is Real (Previously in the Sweetest Ache)
1.7 Leaf Mosaic – the Branch Line (Previously in the Springfields)
1.8 Secret Shine – Captivate This Broken Love
1.9 Even As We Speak – Beauty, You Will Break Us All
1.10 Gnac – Double Ninth (Previously in St Christopher)
1.11 Tufthunter – Chemistry (Previously in Heavenly)
1.12 Useless Users – in This, the House of the Solitary Bees (Previously in Action Painting! ; Secret Shine)
1.13 The Orchids – a Final Love Song
1.14 Wandering Summer – Wake the Silver Dancing Waves (Previously in Boyracer)
1.15 Mystic Village – Open Your Eyes (Previously in the Sea Urchins)
1.16 Boyracer – Unknown Frequencies
1.17 Robert Sekula – Pamela (Previously in Fourteen Iced Bears)
1.18 Vetchinsky Settings – Laugh While You Can (Previously in the Orchids ; St Christopher)
1.19 St Christopher – Burnout ”23
1.20 Sepiasound – June in Her Eyes (Previously in Blueboy)
