Post by @acb@linernotes.club

This article on Sandro’s 1996 album “Live By Rivers”, a linchpin of Naarm’s slowcore-adjacent sound of the era which is being released tomorrow (just in time for #BandcampFriday), is rich with scene lore, citing the likes of Mark Monnone and Laura Macfarlane, not to mention then zinester and current AI journalist @davidgerard:

https://themusic.com.au/features/sandro-lost-slowcore-masterpiece-finds-new-generation/cbrPZWRnZmk/05-11-26

the album itself is at

https://solarsonar.bandcamp.com/album/live-by-rivers

Solar/Sonar

Live By Rivers

Solar/Sonar is proud to announce the reissue on vinyl for the first time of Live By Rivers, the 1996 debut album by Melbourne band Sandro. 30 years ago to the day, Sandro released this beautiful, slow burning masterpiece. This record was sent to me for review in 1997 when I was the editor of a street press in Hobart and has lived as a part of me ever since. In 2005 Solar/Sonar released Threaded Into The Night which was a live recording of Sandro’s last ever show and it is an honour to now present Sandro’s first album, Live By Rivers to new listeners. Whilst fans of slowcore and Australian indie will love this record, for me it is a rich and complex work that goes so far beyond anything I’ve heard before or since. Recorded in a church in Collingwood, the contours of the building live and breathe and play drunken host to Sandro’s simmering beauty. Singer/Guitarist Gareth Edwards is one of my favourite songwriters. His voice is pure but his words are coarse, heartbreaking, sometimes funny and sometimes mean. Bassist Nick Carroll and drummer Cameron Potts slink around the sun weary melodies and whilst refined, every note is given to heartbreak. With a remaster by Mikey Young, Live By Rivers hits even harder and after thousands of listens I’m hearing new detail previously buried in the pews. I’m so happy that I get to pass this incredible album onto others so that it may leave its mark on them like it did on me. Tom Lyngcoln Solar/Sonar

https://themusic.com.au/features/sandro-lost-slowcore-masterpiece-finds-new-generation/cbrPZWRnZmk/05-11-26

#bandcampfriday

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acb

@acb@linernotes.club 2 hr. ago

Now somebody needs to get The Paradise Motel to rerelease their old records (certainly Left Over Life To Kill and Some Deaths Take Forever). I believe they might have the rights to the recordings. @andyhazel.bsky.social: any chance of this happening?

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 1 hr. ago

@acb @andyhazel.bsky.social there's some stuff on youtube music https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCLSU-DtgalschV9GXdOuJEA

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The Paradise Motel

The Paradise Motel are an independent Australian rock band that formed in Hobart, Tasmania. In 1994, they relocated to Melbourne and issued two albums on Mushroom Records, Still Life and Flight Paths. After relocating to the United Kingdom, they released a third, Reworkings, before disbanding in early 2000. The group reformed in January 2008 and released the albums, Australian Ghost Story, I Still Hear Your Voice at Night and Oh Boy.

acb

@acb@linernotes.club 13 min. ago

@davidgerard @andyhazel.bsky.social That’s all more recent material, from after their return to Australia. Their first iteration, when they were signed to Infectious/FMR, remains out of print.

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 1 hr. ago

@acb @andyhazel.bsky.social my full interview is here too https://davidgerard.co.uk/pf/1994-woozy-interview.html

my writing style hasn't changed since the early 1990s

Woozy int (full-length)