DOWNLOAD TRACKS
Want to know what they sounded like? Check out these download samples:
Shade Tree: Undertow (from iWish 001)
SAW: It's Hard to See (from iWish 022)
Anne Bacheley: Mixtape Babies (from iWish 019)
Shade Tree: Picnic By The
Pond (from iWish 016)
Northern_Electrix: Kiss Me Slowly Kiss Me Fast (from iWish
018)
The Metric Mile: Isn't Almost So Much Better (from iWish 017)
Extract from 'i wish i was unpopular' fanzine (i wish 002 - sold
out)
So Shade Tree. Four songs that delight me unreservedly. I flipped
when I first played this CD, and then promptly filed it away for
months in case I was totally wrong and it was just something else
talking to me, like the sun had burnt out my brain or something.
But I wasn’t wrong. Dug out again now it still sounds like
something beamed in on a dream; like Gene Clark and
Carla Olson on duet duties in heaven, and that’s not something
I say lightly. In a parallel world these four tracks would be released
on a ‘proper’ label and Shade Tree would be, if you’ll
excuse the reference, everyone’s new favourite band. But
it’s not. And it’s not, and they’re not. Which
in fact is maybe for the best after all. They can be our secret.
They can stay unpopular."
The Metric Mile - How To Beat The SAT
(from Tangents ezine)
Out of Brooklyn and eschewing that burgh’s already stereotypical
Rock sound for a gentler electro pop sound, The Metric Mile breeze
in with the self-released How To Beat The SAT EP. Recalling the
kind of almost-not-there sound of early Wake, Orchestral Manoeuvres
or The Field Mice when they were effectively a duo with a drum
machine, the Metric Mile possibly dream of girls in polka dots
and of writing songs about telephone boxes. Which means that they
make the kind of sounds that make me recall afternoons sitting
on hillsides below the abandoned radar station, gazing at ferries
crossing the sea to Arran and dreaming of mythical kisses… A
pleasurable curse to be sure.
