The Gentle Spring - "Dodge The Rai"
Action Painting! - "Just Who Are The Cockleshell Heroes?"
The Catenary Wires - "Alone Tonight"
The Hit Parade - "Apple Tree"
Jetstream Pony - "Look Alive!"
Soundwire - "Everything Is Real"
Leaf Mosaic - "The Branch Line"
Secret Shine - "Captivate This Broken Love"
Even As We Speak - "Beauty, You Will Break Us All"
Useless Users - "In This, The House Of The Solitary Bees"
The Orchids - "A Final Love Song"
Wandering Summer - "Wake The Silver Dancing Waves"
Mystic Village - "Open Your Eyes"
Boyracer - "Unknown Frequencies"
Vetchinsky Settings - "Laugh While You Can"
St Christopher - "Burnout '23"
Sepiasound - "June In Her Eyes"
Review: Skep Wax's first Under The Bridge compilation, released in 2022, reunited the bands, songwriters and producers who populated cult early '90s indie label Sarah Records. This hotly anticipated follow-up repeats the trick, presenting 20 recently recorded cuts from the Bristol-based imprint's original roster of artists. It too, is a hugely successful - and understandably nostalgic - exercise, with hi9ghlights including the bright-and-breezy indie jangliness of Action Painting's 'Just Who Are The Cockleshell Heroes', the shoegaze-influenced dream pop haziness of Soundwire's 'Everything Is Real', the near Balearic soft focus shuffle of 'Double Nine' by GNAC, and the saucer-eyed excellence of The Orchids' 'A Final Love Song'.
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