10"
Genuine scene-in-between grail discovery by the re-activated Windmill label that uncovers three previously unheard tracks by Sarah Records alumni Christine's Cat, and places them alongside the sole song the band released while together, 1989's 'Your Love Is...'. The Sarah connection and date-stamp are as much of a roadmap as you need, pinpointing precisely the late-summer sad-sack sensibility the trio are channeling, right in the sweet spot of post-Mary Chain psychedelic jangle that was just about to shift into shoegaze. The few photos that exist of the band suggest a group enamoured with the Cure, though it's a wholly misleading presentation, the four tracks here instead rotating between Pastels-by-way-of-Beat Happening boy-girl melodicism, The Carousel-style lovelorn confessional, and the amp-ed up psychedelic chug of Magic Roundabout. All the right boxes ticked in all the right ways, just the right amount of it to keep you wondering about what might have been. A quintessential 1989 band in a lot of ways. Certainly all the ways that matter.
