My last pimp, cult 'underground' band called The Bitter Springs. New album out called That Sentimental Slush. Lyrically outstanding. They should be HUGE. One of the best British bands EVER(imo).
Track called Gathering Dust.
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Cargo Records Wrote:
Coming 3 years after the critically acclaimed Suburban Crimes of Every Happiness album That Sentimental Slush features live favourites Gathering Dust & Music...It's a young mans game as well as collaborations with Gnac's Mark Tranmer Beautiful Things & Dollboy's Ollie Cherer The end of us The band have been helping out friend and occasional spring collaborator Vic Godard playing live and recording the soon to be released Motion records album Blackpool. Now back to the Bitter Springs full time with what Simon Rivers (words and music) has taken to referring to as 'A triumph over diversity' That Sentimental Slush is set to confirm what the select few already knew, that the Bitter Springs are truly a national treasure, and deserve be introduced to a much wider audience. The band have been Championed in the past by the likes of Pat Gilbert, David Berman,Jim Wirth, Robert Elms, Steve Lamacq ,John Peel (R.I.P),John Kennedy, Sir Bob Geldof and more recently Johnny Brown at Resonance FM. And they have had Great reviews for past albums and singles of the week in both NME and Melody Maker. An underground album of the month in Mojo for Benny Hills Wardrobe And a place in Arena magazines top 10 great undiscovered bands. '' follow your heart not your head you're a long time dead'
morningstaronline Wrote:
ACCESSIBLE tunes, masterful lyrics, critical acclaim, celebrity endorsements.
The Bitter Springs have had them all in abundance and yet, on the eve of their sixth album in nine years, still await their deserved mainstream breakthrough.
Simon Rivers and Daniel Ashkenazy originally performed together in the mid-1980s as John Peel faves Last Party, whose two albums, in retrospect, are clear prototypes for The Bitter Springs sound.
The band achieved a minor footnote in musical history as the support act at the Stone Roses' first London gig, but Rivers and Ashkenazy, along with erstwhile drummer Neil Palmer, regrouped under the present name in 1996.
Their debut EP The Addison Brothers features a guest cameo from a new wave legend who was to be come an important, yet maybe a little too consuming part of their lives.
Vic Godard's involvement with The Bitter Springs ultimately placed the group in a unique position.
While releasing five albums in their own right of increasing quality and depth, encompassing black humour, caustic observation and gut-wrenching introspection, the group also doubled up as Vic Godard's band Subway Sect for nine years.
The last recorded collaboration with Godard, entitled Blackpool, appears later this year.
In February, their latest opus, That Sentimental Slush, is released.
Rivers emerges from the shadow of one songwriting legend to prove, beyond doubt, that he is worthy of such an accolade himself.
Rivers, Ashkenazy and the
regular Bitter Springs line up of Paul "Wizard" Baker, Paul McGrath, Nick Brown and Phil Martin are joined by a host of guest musicians on a stupendous album that should be a contender for the end of year polls come next Christmas.
One of the tracks is self-deprecatingly titled Music - It's a Young Man's Game, but, with an album on the quality of That Sentimental Slush, the youngsters should be swotting up at this masterclass in composition.
