Friday, November 18, 2011

Singles Going Single #191 - Swizzle 7" (199?, Cassiel)

Got some more mystery indie rock goodness to share with you.  Purchased this single many, many moons ago, and upon bringing it home discovered that it was sans an inner sleeve, and for that matter an insert with any useful information regarding the record in question.  I'm afraid all I have to go by is a Cambridge, MA address on the rear of the sleeve - not even the year of release on the physical record labels or nuthin.'  Highly inconvenient on my end of the stick, because with such a ubiquitous moniker as Swizzle, a search engine query yields zilch in terms of pertinent details.  That means we're left with *gulp* just the music itself.  Luckily Swizzle's fuzzy strain of left-of-the-dial guitar pop is of sizable, not to mention winsome merit.  Side A delivers a pair of buoyant, rhythmically conscious jewels, doled out with seemingly effortless agility.  The lone B-side composition, "Tricycle" is considerably more subdued and pensive, before peaking to a dissonant crescendo roughly half-way in.  I'm not going to draw any comparisons here.  For a change, I think I'll leave that up to you.

A1. Bliss
A2. Who's That Lady
B. Tricycle

http://netkups.com/?d=9a2ecfe12e052

5 comments:

sparky said...

I'm glad I'm not the only one that owns a copy of this. At least I *think* this is still in my collection. Fantastic blog, btw.

I want to say this was made in either '98 or '99.

sparky said...

Also, the copy you have is exactly the same as mine that is to say there are no liner notes included.

Cassiel was a great albeit short-lived label with some fun indie-pop bands. Their Dreamboat compilation is still one of my favorites.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Dreamboat/release/1605824

- Sparky

soniklife said...

Great upload!

Sparky- could you perhaps upload that Dreamboat compilation? Definitely some great obscure bands on there like Spare Snare, Cat's Miaow, Pie, Twig, and Holiday. And obviously Olivia Tremor Control. I'd love to check that out.

spavid said...

Thanks for your comments folks. I don't have the Dreamboat comp you mentioned, so it's all up to you sparky.

sparky said...

if i have it, i'll post the link here and if you want to make it your post of the day or what have you, that's more than fine with me.