The Gap Band - Gap Band I II & III - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. When I Look in Your Eyes 2. Yearning for Your Love 3. Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) 4. Nothin' Comes to Sleepers 5. Are You Living 6. Sweet Caroline 7. Humpin' 8. The Way 9. Gash Gash Gash

Vinyl LP pressing. Independent music from the West Coast of Scotland has always had a kinship with psychedelic pop music from the West Coast of America. Orange Juice loved the Byrds, Teenage Fan club wanted to be in Buffalo Springfield, the Pastels adored the Electric Prunes. Dream Boys are a modern-day trans-Atlantic love affair realized. Consisting of three Americans and one Scotsman, the group filters the spirit of Postcard Records through the rural haze of the Paisley Underground; pure pop with nods to New Zealand's Flying Nun Records and Australia's the Church. Psychedelic in the truest sense, the band's self-titled debut album floats around the notions of time and space, love and heartbreak with a range of emotion and introspection. One can't imagine these songs coming from any other band or from any other time other than now. A Californian sun rises on a Glasgow street, rain falls during an Indian summer - Dream Boys lies somewhere in between this musical dream, in love with pop music with a sincerity unmatched.

Fromthing Somethat, the tongue-twister title of legendary L.A. dreampop/indiepop foursome, The Black Watch's nineteenth LP, comes from a mistake front man John Andrew Fredrick made whilst singing a line from the song InchThe Lonesome Death of Mary Hansen.Inch Cleverly self-effacing album titles have been a part of this serious band's aesthetic ever since 2011's well-received Led Zeppelin Five (along with such titles as InchJiggery-PokeryInch, InchAfter the Gold RoomInch, InchThe Gospel According To JohnInch, and InchMagic JohnsonInch). This record hops, skips, and jumps from dreamy-floaty (the opening number, InchSt Fair Isle SweaterInch) to dance-y (the almost-disco of InchThe Nothing That IsInch) to majestic (InchAll I Know (Is That the Moon is Beautiful)Inch to dark/ominous (InchDrip, Drip, DripInch) and back again to dreamlike (InchFor Always Then To KeepInch and the soaring closing lullaby InchI'm Not Hung UpInch). And yet it's all of a piece-a record that perhaps sounds like every 60's, 80's, or 90's guitar band you've ever loved and, well, unmistakably a The Black Watch record. Album Tracks 1. Saint Fair Isle Sweater 2. The Nothing That Is 3. The Lonesome Death of Mary Hansen 4. Green Stars, Clouds Departing 5. Drip, Drip, Drip 6. All I Know (Is That the Moon Is Beautiful) 7. Such Like Friendly Demons 8. The Haves & Nots 9. For Always Then to Keep 10. I'm Not Hung Up