April wasn't my most productive month on this indieblog. I'm glad that it looks that I'll have a little more time next months and I hope that I'll be able to write three or four posts a week. Actually, the writing isn't the real problem, it's the search for interesting new bands with new releases. Sometimes I'll find something within a few minutes and sometimes it takes more than an hour. I found Sarandon some days ago.The London band Sarandon was founded in 2003 by singer, guitarist Crayola. Their goal was to make exciting, snappy, itchy, uncontrollable pop music and at least they succeeded in that goal. They started with seven songs, and after one rehearsal and one live show they released their first EP "The Miniest Album". This record received some fine reviews and was played a lot by John Peel. After that they released the EPs "The Big Flame", "The Feminist Third" and "The June Bride". The songs from these records were compiled on compilation CD "The Completist's Library" late 2006. At the moment Sarandon consists of Crayola, drummer Tom Greenhalgh and bassist Alan Brown and this is the line-up in which they recorded their first full-length album "Kill Twee Pop" on Slumberland Records. Six months ago they debuted on this label with the single "Joe's Record". I absolutely don't agree with the title of this new record, but that doesn't mean that I don't think it's exciting music. k ben het absoluut niet eens met de titel van deze nieuwe plaat, maar dat wil ook niet zeggen dat ik dit geen interessante muziek vind. Exciting, snappy, itchy, uncontrollable pop music. On this album they break the three-minute barrier for the first time. Until some months ago this was unheard of with Sarandon.
>mp3: Joe's Record
>mp3: Mike's Dollar
>mp3: The Linguist (from "Joe's Record")