VELOCETTE Fourfold Remedy 1998

 

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Artist Biography by Mike DaRonco

Not too long after the demise of Comet Gain in early 1997, four out of the five members continued on to grab England's attention with their new project Velocette. Immediately after they released their first single "Get Yourself Together," the press coverage started pouring in from both NME and Melody Maker -- who placed their aforementioned song as "Single of the Week" not too long after they got their hands on it. After countless gigs and headlining tours all throughout their home land in 1998, their trademark sounds were finally documented on their first full length entitled Fourfold Remedy. Merging elements of crazed rhythms, jazzy beats on top of relaxed folk openings that progress into explosive guitar chords, Velocette take the prize for pulling off their own unique sound.

Tracklist

1	Reborn
2	Bitterscene
3	La Sirena
4	Unkind
5	Where Are We?
6	Get Yourself Together
7	Spoiled Children
8	Submarines
9	Someone's Waiting
10	That Ain't Mine

COMET GAIN Say Yes! to International Socialism 1996

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London-based punk and soul and damaged rock n' roll band. Long-term members include David Feck/Christian, Rachel Evans, Jon Slade, Kay Ishikawa, Anne-Laure Guillian and Woodie Taylor. The band was formed in Oxford in 1992 by David, who roped in housemate Phil Sutton. In 1993, Sarah Bleach, Jaxx Coombes and Sam Pluck joined, and in 1997 everyone except David splintered off into Velocette (2), leaving Comet Gain's album 'Sneaky' and next single "Get Yourself Together" abandoned at the test pressing stage.

 

 

Tracklist

1	Hideaway
2	Say Yes!
3	California
4	Sunsets At Her Window

 

COMET GAIN Casino Classics 1995

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Artist Biography by Mark Deming

Led by guitarist and vocalist David Feck (aka David Bower and David Christian), Comet Gain are a British indie pop band whose music is a freewheeling, literate fusion of folk-rock, twee pop, garage rock, R&B, punk, and any number of points in between. The first edition of Comet Gain was formed in 1992; Feck initially conceived the group as a trio with bassist George Wright and drummer Phil Sutton, but the band truly found its sound the following year, when Jax Coombes replaced Wright on bass and singer Sarah Bleach and guitarist Sam Pluck came on board. This lineup recorded the group's debut album, 1995's Casino Classics, which was released by the U.K. indie label Wiija.

In 1997, Wiija issued Comet Gain's second album in Great Britain under the title Magnetic Poetry, while it came out in the United States via Beggars Banquet in expanded form as Sneaky. However, months after the sophomore album arrived in stores, Feck's bandmates walked out on him, and he assembled a new version of Comet Gain from scratch, featuring Rachel Evans as female vocalist, M.J. "Woodie" Taylor on drums, and former Huggy Bear member Jon Slade on guitar and bass. The new version of Comet Gain cut the 1999 album Tigertown Pictures, which was released by Kill Rock Stars in America and Fortuna Pop in the U.K.

While Evans, Taylor, and Slade (and bassist Kay Ishikawa) have frequently played with Comet Gain since, Feck remains the only constant from the band's many personnel changes, and in a 2009 interview he claimed that 66 different people have been members of Comet Gain since the group's formation. Comet Gain's relationship with Kill Rock Stars resulted in two more albums, 2002's Realistes and 2005's City Fallen Leaves, while in 2008 Feck assembled Broken Record Prayers, a 20-song compilation drawn from the group's many single releases and compilation appearances.

Their sixth album, 2011's Howl of the Lonely Crowd, featured new keyboardist Anne Laure Guillain and found Comet Gain receiving some production assistance from one of their heroes, ex-Orange Juice leader Edwyn Collins. After that record, the band lost longtime members Ishikawa (in 2011) and Slade (in 2012), replacing them with Ben Phillipson on guitar and ex-Clientele member James Hornsey on bass. The new band returned in 2013 with the "Avenue Girls" single, before releasing its seventh album, the relatively quiet and autumnal Paperback Ghosts, in the early summer of 2014 on the Fortuna Pop label. Some of the tracks recorded during the Paperback Ghosts session that didn't quite fit the mood ended up on the Fingerprint Ritual EP in early 2015. 

Tracklist 

1	Footstompers	2:27
2	A Million And Nine	3:23
3	Turnpike	2:52
4	Last Night	4:28
5	Original Arrogance	1:39
6	Another Girl	3:23
7	Music Upstairs	3:23
8	Villain	2:35
9	Stay With Me Til Morning	4:54
10	Charlie	3:03
11	Just Fourteen	3:10
12	Ghost Of The Roman Empire	2:24
13	Intergalactic Starbed	5:06
14	Chevron Action Flash	2:12
15	Aliens At War	2:05
16	A Kind Of Loving	2:55