I know next to nothing about them, but bought a best of called "Ginmill Perfume: The Story so Far 1995-2001"....They're Brits, oddly sound more like an 80s Brit band then a 90s one.....I guess they are still active....Alternative Tentacles has reissued their back catalog and (I think) put out a new one.
Odd band to be on Alt Tentacles, they have elements of brit post punk/new wave, but with a distinctive twangy surf/film noir kind of garagey-ness....um....the best way to describe it is that a few of the instrumentals are DYING to be included on a Taratino soundtrack....in parts remind me of The Fall a little, w/o Mark E.
Does anyone know anything about these guys? Anything else worth checking out?
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
i just bought it cuz this one record shop dude in mpls loves them alot and keeps putting them on the front rack with breathless little blurbs about them, which got me interested.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mog, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm really digging this song called "The Face on the Bar Room Floor" right now....
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Flaming Stars' 'Bring Me The Rest Of Alfredo Garcia' is a great song title.
― Mog, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I've seen them live and enjoyed them a lot. Think they shared a drummer with Minxus who were a really good and under-appreciated band on Too Pure.
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mog, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mog, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
The 2 disc best-of "London After Midnight" is all you need. And you do need it. The above surf-garage-punk is an apt description.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 October 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Fantastic collection, got it in the Tower Records meltdown.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the one disc "ginmill perfume" comp is pretty swell too, but i'd also advise to spring for the 2cd
― hyperstudio (skeletor), Thursday, 8 October 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I had picked up "Ginmill" initially as well but just wanted more. Sometimes one disc just isn't enough but two covers an artist perfectly. That's the case here.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 October 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link