Ex-Bowery Electric man Lawrence Chandler has teamed with vocalist Lucia Rivero under the cheekily inappropriate name Happy Families to extrude a 7” single of shimmering, squalling guitar, droning static, beautiful, beatific vocalizing and relentless, simple drum patterns to create something as melancholic and strangely romantic as vintage era MBV. It’s titled ‘New Forgetting’ and is just as evocative as the title suggests. Sure, it wears it’s influences on it’s sleeves but they’re bloody lovely sleeves at that.
It’s backed with a fuzzed, stoned to sickness take on The Ramones’ ‘I Remember You’ that subverts the original, and takes it on a JAMC journey through the backstreets of overdriven shoegaze while maintaining it’s dark-pop sensibilities.
It sees a release on Sonic Cathedral on 7” and as a digital download on July 15th – there’ll also be copies available at the indie market this coming weekend in that London, details here: http://independentlabelmarket.
There’s also a free show from the band at the Social in London next Monday 15th July.
