About A Million

 

About A Million hails from the tiny city of Coatesville, PA. To say this band is unique would be putting it lightly, there are so many things going on in this band it's hard to pick a place to start; To start I feel like I should mention that this is a family band. Family bands aren't all too common when thinking about songs of this style. I'd compare them to something like twee, jangle with a mix of Alex G. and garage. 

Going back to the family band point, this band consists of the Leitch siblings, the siblings being.

Scotty Leitch, Anthony Leitch, Kyle Leitch & Jessica Leitch. some of these names might sound familiar, primarily Anthony and Scotty due to their other side projects. Scotty has been featured on my blog before under the band "Pirouette" but is now better known as "Shelf Life". If you haven't yet listened to Pirouette I recommend you do so ASAP.

The "albums" I'm sharing today I forgot I had and can't find anything about them online at all, nothing, 0, zip, nada. The reason why I call these songs "albums" is because I would consider these more of something like home recordings and demos more than full fledged albums, these don't even have album art or lyrics which is why I'm borrowing the photos from the bands facebook which also does not have much info about that band but I digress. 

as well as not knowing much about the recordings or having album art / lyrics, I also don't have any release dates for any of these albums but I'm guessing maybe around 2003/4? sometime before pirouette but I could be wrong entirely. Regardless I hope you enjoy these long lost tracks.

DREAMING IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE

1) Gentile Rubber

 2) Hallucination

3) It's called well love 

4) Plastic Black 

5) Since We've Been Apart

6) Something About Hannah

7) Surviving a Plane Crash

8) The Stereo Had it Cumming

9) This Cocoon is Cacomfortable

10) His Girl Fridays

11) In Our Dreams

12) Nah, I Think I'll Just Go Home

13) The Yearbook That Gave Birth To The Dictionary

14) Krystal Boll

15) Matt's Black Haircut

16) Technilogical Composure (bass) 

Man Made of Paper

1) Air

2) Dirty Mafia

3) Drunken Spaceship

4) Last Chances are Hard to Breathe Without Anyone

5) Man Made of Paper

6) Oh

7) You Gotta Know

Don't let our chord break

1) 12 year old with aids

2) Don't Give Me That

3) I CAN'T BE FREE

4) She Won't Say Anything

5) Since We've Been Apart (Acoustic Version)

6) Something Random Something Weird

7) The Truth

8) You were telling the truth

9) All the hours

10) Animals eating animals

11) Cars are retro

12) His girl friday1

13) I Hate Breathing

14) Lullaby

15) Makeout session with the enemy (4 Miles Ago)

16) Makes Sense

17) My Only Friend

18) She won't say anythingg

19) Techincal Difficulties 

20) The Jealous Sound

Poastal

Poastal were an American indiepop band based in Huntington Beach/Costa Mesa, CA from 1993 to 1996 and consisting of Ariadni on vocals, David on bass, Yoshi on drums plus Daniel and Michael on guitar. They only had two singles released -- a split 7" with #Poundsign# on small-fi/No Life and another 7" on Candy Floss/Four Letter Words. Ariadni later joined Brent Kenji's early band Skypark. Yoshi Nakamoto joined The Scenic Vermont and The Aislers Set.

- Discogs.com


Couldn't find a lot of info / photos of these guys online, they put out a 7" titled "here" which I do have album art for and am including in this post, AFAIK this is their complete discography which includes their contribution to the split with #POUNDSIGN# (who's track I am not including because I'm maybe posting them later) I managed to track down an album cover for their final release on the "Pure Spun Sugar" compilation that came out in 98', for some reason this single isn't linked to their LastFm page or their discogs but I managed to track it down.



FFO: Indie, Twee, Alt Pop, Indie Pop

Enjoy.

due to their discog only being a total of four recorded songs, I've decided to compile their releases into one download which are separated by ID3 tags after their download (complete with album art and updated tag info.

Poastal Discography (1993-1998?)

Here "7 (1995)

1. Here

2. The Absolute Magnitude Of Negative Five

Dizzy / Disaster (1994)

1. Dizzy

Pure Spun Sugar (1998)

1. Kicked In The Head

Gaze

Gaze, consisting of singers/guitarists Miko Hoffman and Megan Mallet with drummer Rose Melberg (Go Sailor, The Softies, Tiger Trap), released two singles in 1997.

Gaze is a great band to put on if you want some easy listening while you're doing work or just looking to relax. The total number of released they put out was 5 two full lengths and three 7 inches across two years (1999-1997) if I had to place them in a genre i would put them in a strange spot of twee, indie pop, shoegaze not too sure but definitely worth the listen

Three of their four releases were released on K records, one of the outlying two being released on the now defunct Septophilia who's label owner was in the band BunnyGrunt, BunnyGrunt made up 3 of the 4 albums released on Septophilia with Gaze's album being the fourth.

Gaze releases are still being sold through K records' website making this release perfect for posting

Favorite Track: So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) , if you think that song title sounds familiar it's because it's a cover of the song made famous by the country singers Don Everly (1/2 of the Everly Brothers). The cover is soft and complimented nicely by Miko's vocals.

Bob (1995)

1. Bob
2. Eric Idol
3. Glad We're Pals
4. 400 A.D.

So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) 1997

1. Dragon's Lair

2. Pedal

3. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)