Windmill Flexi 2

A flexidisc of 3 indie bands, the essence of indie pop? Personally i've always found flexidiscs a nightmare to get to play properly but they are fun (when they work) and have that same mysterious excitement as you get from Christmas crackers.

The music then from this 1991 flexi, Dreamscape's "strange story" is a lovely psychedelic drenched piece of pop, as you'd expect from the proto-Secret Shine band. Beautiful guitar over 60s organ and Rebecca Rawlings' lovely vocals. This is one of the best Dreamscape songs, up there with "Black flower".

Strawberry Story's "behind this smile" is a lo-fi indie thrash with female close harmonies over a fuzz guitar attack. Its lovely and frantic. Finally They Go Boom!! go all urgent pop rush with "She's like a dream" and it has some truly gorgeous pop harmonies. The essence of indie pop? The essence of life.

MV : "Your love is..." by Christine's Cat

The scorching glory.

Christine's Cat - your love is... (flexi)

Over the years i heard pretty much every Sarah band and got my hands on a majority of the records but one band eluded me. Christine's Cat who only released one song, on flexi disc as Sarah 13. However thanks to teh intarweb i have now heard this amazing song by Christine's Cat who apparently comprised of a few members of The Golden Dawn. Its a simple and rough indie pop song that has a buzz saw of feedback NOISE TERROR!!! running through it. Brilliant and simple and magical.

It was magic moments like this which is why so many of us continue to love Sarah Records. Yeah.