Fountain of Youth Records was a Washington D.C. based imprint that pumped out a slew of releases for hardcore titans Goverment Issue during that band's eighties reign. Most of FoY's roster was of the punk persuasion, but there were a couple of anomalies as well, Wishes and Water being key among them. Not much is known about the band, essentially a duo composed of
Matt Riedl, formally of
Braille Party, and
Derrick Hsu, who I believe had a hand in running the FoY label itself. W/W weren't punk or abrasive in the
least, skewing considerably closer to a singer/songwriter setup. Frankly the bulk of this record is too genteel, even for my tolerant palette. The jangly-ish "Tears" is probably the most creative notion on the record, and recommendable in and of itself. A traipse thru Lou Reeds “Perfect Day” fits like a glove, and the brisk Don Mclean cover that concludes this disk is more stirring than several of Wishes' originals. You can peruse another critique of
Wishes and Water here.
01. Ocean City
02. Ellie
03. Perfect Day
04. Tears
05. Choice of Words
06. Oh My, What a Shame
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3 comments:
Very pleasant release, totally unknown to me.
Thank you very much for sharing it.
Could you please re-upload this one thanks!
Hello, I don't know if you have re-uploaded this record after riz has requested it in 2018? If so, it has expired again. And I would be very thankful if you could re-upload this record (once more), since it's not possible to find it elsewhere.
Thanks!
Sascha
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