You think, and this is meant in the best possible sense, that you would have heard all these songs before. Maybe earlier on VIVA 2, maybe while smoking weed in the basement of the only indie dude of the school class in 1997, or while making out at a school disco; maybe it was much later, while listening to the complete Cherry Red discography. All wrong. Never heard that shit. Impossible, there were 25 (!) cassettes of »May Never Happen« recorded. 1985 in Ohio. At least, that’s how melancholic indie songs have sounded since the age of the sabre-toothed tigers and continued to do so until the fall of the Twin Towers. On the one hand tired, on the other hand up for anything. Adorably innocent and nonchalant this virgin folk-rock; this catchy jingle jangle guitar pop goes straight for the jugular. The whole thing was recorded with a cassette recorder – the lo-fi sound really pushes the sentimentality tube at the end. This is the kind of thing Moopie usually digs up with his A Colourful Storm label, but in this case Concentric Circles are the benefactors, whose curator Jed Bindeman you might know from the also excellent reissue label Freedom To Spend. Now quickly read old love letters and shed an overdose of tears.
May Never Happen
