Black Tambourine were a four piece from Maryland whose existence was criminally short lived. Fronted by Pam Berry whose voice registers somewhere between Galaxie 500's Naomi and a far less angsty Calvin Johnson. The band released a few 7"s on Slumberland in the way early nineties, followed by limited touring and the quartet eventually going their own separate ways.
This band has since re-released their entire selection of recordings on Slumberland a handful of years back. The style and aesthetic has very blatantly influenced newer indie pop groups like Vivian Girls and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart just to name a couple.
There is a loose nostalgic feel to most of the music and it is the perfect early summer soundtrack. Fall in love to and with this is....Very pawn shop reverb unit tone-y and the percussion seems to wash things out a bit as well. Some of it comes off as them taking a stab at tweegaze which I think people are calling surf rock* now, whatev.
*****See next post on Joe Meek in a couple days for the real scoop
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