Sounds From The Junkshop #80 - Clearlake
"I wish for a nice existence/One with no hard work for instance.." - Clearlake - I Want To Live In A Dream Although by 2001, it's safe to say that my interest in indie music was very much waning, there was still the odd band who managed to break through my defences and Clearlake, similar to Easyworld and Chris T-T , both of whom we've covered on here in recent weeks, were one of the last few bands of this genre who I genuinely found myself enjoying before I finally gave up on the NME and indie music and wandered off into heavier waters not to return until well over a decade later. Listening back to their first and best album Lido some twenty years after the fact, it's pretty clear that these Brighton natives weren't really breaking any new ground but there's something about these tales of smalltown boredom that I think I related to back then. As I've mentioned in the last few SFTJ's, by this point I had left university behind and found myself ...