Sounds From The Junkshop #39 - Carrie
"Who's there? You'll never know..." - Carrie - Tricara Another one of those bands who put out a great album that the world missed because the timing was totally wrong for it, Carrie were formed from the ashes of mid-'90s rockers Some Have Fins with American singer Steve Ludwin and Australian drummer Bruce Pawsey recruiting ex-EMF bassist Zac Foley and guitarist Dennis Dicker to complete the line-up. Sonically the group were cut from the same half-Britrock half-Britpop cloth as Ash but with a much more dark and twisted Placebo-esque lyrical streak running through them. Like quite a few people I suspect, it was Carrie's fourth single, California Screamin' , released in the summer of 1998, that turned me on to them. A sublime slice of Weezer style power-pop about dreaming of the Golden State when you're stuck in a bedsit in Dalston on a rainy Tuesday night, it should have been the song to break them chart-wise and got picked up and played by Radio 1 a...