Cindy – Cindy (Re-issue)

Tough Love

£22.21

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: TLV140LP
Barcode: 5055869549677
Release Date: 14 Apr 2023
Genre: Pop

Black vinyl LP re-issue. Edition of 500. Cindy don't do many things loudly, but their seemingly sudden emergence a few years back was quite the jolt, their Free Advice LP doing for the current San Fran scene what the Big Supermarket record did for Melbourne a year or two back - ie a totemic outta-nowhere DIY statement of rare vision. As it turns out, though, it's not quite without precedent, since there was actually a self-released debut record from 2018, first pressed in tiny number and initially not moving much further than their immediate locale. A few years on and now trading for inflated prices on the second hand market, Tough Love are re-issuing in order to shine a little light on the band's first steps. These ten tracks display the ruminative formation of the minimal indiepop sound perfected on Free Advice, skeletons of the same ideas with a little less flesh on dem bones, nonetheless struck with a naive wonder, like you're afforded the opportunity to hear the band stumbling upon their own charms in real time. And that is 100% the appropriate word here - charm, a quality perfectly captured in that front cover, too. It's not possible to overstate how endearing this music is, so independent is it of outside influence and free of self-consciousness. Is this the birth of the new Paisley Underground? Or maybe something better...

Tracks: 1. Way Over Here (for Ellsworth Kelly RIP) 2. Book in Heaven 3. Love Triangle 4. Move to LA 5. Caller 103 6. Don't Try 7. Brighton Beach 8. Yours Alone 9. Animal Past (for Agnes Martin RIP) 10. Friday Night