catalogue

CINDY

CINDY (TOUGH LOVE)

CINDY - CINDY 158590
format:
1 LP
release:
19.05.2023
label:
TOUGH LOVE
item ID:
158590
barcode:
5055869549677
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...
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. WAY OVER HERE
  • 1.2. BOOK IN HEAVEN
  • 1.3. LOVE TRIANGLE
  • 1.4. MOVE TO LA
  • 1.5. CALLER 103
  • 1.6. DON'T TRY
  • 1.7. BRIGHTON BEACH
  • 1.8. YOURS ALONE
  • 1.9. ANIMAL PAST
  • 1.10. FRIDAY NIGHT