Thousand Yard Stare - spindrift EP

The sound of early 90s "major label" indie (which is a contradiction in terms of course). I guess Polydor's Thousand Yard Stare sounded like many other British bands of the time, nicely inoffensive little guitar pop songs with an indie beat never far behind. Beloved in university union bars, hated by the music press largely and making a lot of their money from t-shirt sales.

Ah i love this time personally, when records like this were being released seemingly every week, there were plenty of great songs to shake your fringe to in the club. "Wideshire 2" is a fine song with an energetic guitar motif. "Hand, son" has wiggly guitar chords all over it and the usual indie beat. Maybe all seems a bit naff now but i still like the energy and the naivity. You could dance to this (or shake yourself about like you were being electrocuted anyway), try doing that to Codeine.