UNDERGROUND LOVERS - How is the other stuff??? I only have "Dream It Down"...

Anyone have current status for the band? Listening to _Dream It Down_ now, and wondering if they put anything out after _Cold Feeling_.

They did a soundtrack for a film (Mallboy) but I don't know what else after that, if anything.

yeah they're long gone. vince had a new band a couple of years ago who were pretty good but they seem to have fizzled out, he's now doing mist & sea.

Recentish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Lovers

i have not heard of this raining ropes band at all

ah they haven't played live at all that's why

sounds alright tho

http://www.myspace.com/rainingropes

one of the GB3 records had the most dead-on rip of 'smalltown boy' i've ever heard.

i think one of 'em actually directed mallboy, too!

the new record is tremendous.

it's really great. if i had to whinge about something i feel the sound is a little dry and anaemic at times but it's become my second favourite record of theirs (after LMB o course)

the new record is tremendous.

― super wild whore sez (haitch), Friday, May 24, 2013 12:17 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

top 3 of the year for me

I agree that the sound of the record is a bit flat, especially on the uptempo tracks which is a bit of a shame since they are so amazingly propulsive. I would love to witness "Can For Now" live.

It feels like the most integrated of their albums? Like I can see bits of every previous release informing stuff here but in this really natural and intuitive manner.

What the hell, I completely missed news of this! WANT.

Digging this album a lot. I keep thinking "Can For Now" is Sonic Youth!

wait, wtf--new album?!?!?

behold

OK, getting this today

And it's on iTunes, nice.

Actually in checking their full entry how is it I missed Ways T'burn and Mallboy?

tour-previewed last year, released in April

Ways t'Burn got much radio love back when. Mallboy discussed upthread but was really a GBVG album iirc

looking at the discogs link, it doesn't have the live album either

Great to hear a "reformation" record which takes genuine risks, they're true originals in my book.

Who else would concoct a Go Betweens homage as perverse as "Riding"?

My thoughts exactly.

i actually own Dream It Down and Leaves Me Blind and quite liked both of those back in the day. will have to hear this new album from what people are saying.

Man I had forgotten how amazing Cold Feeling is. "Put Me In Your Movie" is just the best.

OTOH the two available songs from the forthcoming album kinda bore me.

A pity -- but yes I should go back to Cold Feeling sometime...

opening track of 'leaves me blind', 'eastside stories', is really quite a thing.
6 mins of big bassline, pounding drums, and layers of guitars/atmospherics.
not sure i have ever really delved much further into the album ...

"Your Eyes" is (are?) quite the anthem...

Very nostalgic for that Guernica period of 4AD.

for its age, this cd sounds absolutely fantastic.
no remastering required.

"Your Eyes" is (are?) quite the anthem...

ahh yeah, used to skip to this one as well.
8 mins of house of love styled groove + guitars.

Been meaning to check these guys out for yonks. Gave the "Wonderful Things" comp a spin and like most of it. Is it a good cherry picking of their pre-reformation period?

Also, any truth to the story that their name is an amalgam of The Velvet Underground and The Modern Lovers?

Yeah, that's a good selection of highlights. The Rushall Station selections seem a bit arbitrary, but then it's quite a consistent and understated record. (And under-rated, if this thread is any guide.)

New album, A Left Turn, in October. Rubber Records page here and first single here.

Ok, I've gotten full into these guys. Picked up "Leaves Me Blind" last year and was blown away that I had missed them back in the day, it really fits in perfectly with the early 90s shoegaze scene but adds something uniquely Australian. Then I finally went back and listened to the rest of their catalog and picked up "Dream It Down", "Rushall Station" and the really intriguing "Cold Feeling". (I passed on "Ways T'Burn", that direction didn't work for me.)

Now to check out their reunion material...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfNBH_zyPe8 is a great video. "The Rerun" is maybe my favorite of the reformation tunes. Still absorbing the new record, but glad they released it as on cd vs. vinyl/download only.

Anytime someone falls for the Undies, I give a RIYL tangent to Glide. The same Oz mixtape swap that introduced me to me "In My Head" and "Takes You Back", turned me on to Glide, Custard, You Am I, TISM, Karma County, and a handful of others. Great stuff. Glide put out four albums (one posthumous to the singer's death) and a bunch of singles, all worth hearing.

Funny enough, I was way into Glide in the late 90s due to their being championed by The Big Takeover magazine. Wonderful stuff indeed, ending so tragically.

I struggle to remember much about Ways T'Burn when it's not playing but I've got a lot of mileage out of this performance of Starsigns on Saturday morning yoof oriented TV.

Aside from Starsigns, the only WTB which stays with me is the title track, languid and sweet.