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 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.
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)
