Acuarela Launches 7″ Club

The runs will be limited to 1000 copies, with exclusive and previously unreleased songs. The first two releases are The Wave Pictures and Agent Ribbons, whose respective 7″s will come out on July 1st.

We have created a blog specifically for this new adventure:http://acuarela-singlesclub.blogspot.com

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Madrid-based Acuarela’s relationship with vinyl has always been rather intermittent. While the beginnings of the label back in 1993 were marked by the debuts on 7″ of several Spanish acts such as Sr. Chinarro or a single by Scottish band BIS (“Transmissions in the teen-c tip”), since the mid to late 90s we have barely released anything on that format. Some of our bands as Astrud, Migala, Mus, The Clientele or recently ZA have actually released vinyl, but sporadically or for other labels or distributors, and almost always in short runs.

Hence the creation of the Acuarela Singles Club is both a look at the past and a window into the future. Because this is a roster of artists -associated with the label, but not always belonging to its core- enough to keep us busy for a long time; back to our roots, yes, but rejuvenating and planting new seeds.

The runs will be of 1000 copies, with exclusive songs and there will be no CD edition in any case. Among the participants we can mention Darren Hayman, Spain, Chris Brokaw, Tara Jane O’Neil, El Hijo (ex Migala), Nick Castro, Inca Ore, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), The Drift, Bracken, Mount Eerie, Windsor for the Derby, Ben Wetherill, Barzin, or The Wowz.

The first two releases are The Wave Pictures and Agent Ribbons, whose respective 7″s will come out on July 1st.

THE WAVE PICTURES – Watching Charlie’s Agents

David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki Jonnie Helm know what it is like to spend a Friday night at the pub of any London suburb. It is something they love to talk about in their songs as The Wave Pictures. Songs which portray the awkwardness of love, expressed in the confessional tone with which Tattersall approaches each of his lyrics. This young English band’s 7″ displays their more incisively pop side (not far from the classics featured in “Instant Coffee Baby”) in two irresistible and previously unreleased tracks.

AGENT RIBBONS – Your Love is the Smallest Doll

Agent Ribbons are Natalie Gordon (guitar and vocals), Naomi Cherie (violin) and Lauren Hess (drums), a Sacramento trio whose music has been described as “Victorian punk” or “White Stripes locked in Wonderland”. Their sound is truly a reminiscent of the fifties and sixties blues, something like Nina Simone fronting The Raincoats. They’re shiner in small format, as in this 3 song release in which they talk about love, despair and the urgency and anger for life.