Family Gotown - turtle EP (Vertigo)

Family Gotown are fairly obscure now, releasing just 2 EPs in the early 1990s (a review of the other EP can be found here). Their brand of hammond organ driven guitar pop was pretty good but maybe just not enough to stand out from the crowd and their career coincided with a bit of a downturn in the British indie scene after the end of shoegaze and before the rise of britpop.

They fitted into neither category really, though had the "indie re-imagined 60s psychedelia acid sound" down well. "Turtle" is an enjoyable if straight forward indie pop track. "Pick me up" with its echoey vocals and harder rock edge is a more interesting track, with a bit of work it could have been quite an anthem.

"Cheat me" is a bit of a throwaway rock thrash. Finally "Pretty things" is an acoustic ballad. Its billed as an EP but the first two tracks are far superior (and what you got on the 7" edition anyway). Well not all bands make it, and Family Gotown didn't, but their output was not bad by any means.