best for guests. jeremy underwood (gold-bears)

Gold-Bears' album Are You Falling In Love? (released via Slumberland), was one of the highlights of 2011.
The band was formed in 2010 by Jeremy in Atlanta, and before their debut album, released two highly praised 7''s singles (on Magic Marker Records and Cloudberry Records).
Their 'crash pop' resonates early Slumberland, The Wedding Present and kids hanging at a parking lot.

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Here's Jeremy's 2012 favourites.














The Garlands S/T LP Shelflife
Terry Malts  Killing Time LP Slumberland
Allo Darlin' Europe LP Slumberland
Edine Avec Lisle Mitnik et son Orchestre 7" Elefant
Liechtenstein  Fast Forward LP Fraction Discs
Lightships  Electric Cables LP Geographic
Merchandise Children of Desire LP Katorga Works
Veronica Falls S/T LP Slumberland
The XX Coexist LP Young Turks
Joanna Gruesome Do You Really Wanna Know Why Yr Still in Love with Me? 7" HHBTM
Deep Time S/T LP Hardly Art
Music Tapes  Mary's Voice LP Merge
September Girls Wanting More 7" Matinée
The School Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything LP Elefant
Mount Eerie Clear Moon LP P.W. Elverun & Sun, Ltd.

2011. BEST FOR GUESTS. 22 jeremy underwood (gold-bears)

'Are You Falling In Love?' that's the name of the debut album of Atlanta based band Gold-Bears. A few seconds after the start of Record Store, track number 3 (roughly 5 minutes into the album) you get the question from the album name and have no doubts on screaming YES while jumping around to their music.
Gold- Bears could be the less polished, more rebel - but not less romantic - brother of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. Or the son of Slumberland's earlier releases.
Punk, noise and pop. And -trust me - you falling in love.

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Here's Jeremy and his top 7 inches of the year!

"This has been an amazing year for indie pop and the 7" single! While my band was fortunate enough to arduously record our debut lp for my favorite label of 20 years, I was still able to consume tons of records. This list could've been chock full of 7"s released on Slumberland Records. A few didn't make it for sake of keeping it diverse (Manatee and Terry Malts to only name two). Notwithstanding, this list reflects what I was excited about last year and what I cannot wait for in the coming year.

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SMALL REACTIONS CULT HERO JONATHAN LEWIN b/w FAT ZEBRA (feral children) (link)

CUFFS PRIVILEGED b/w ARCHER (ride the snake) (link)

BLEACHED SEARCHING THROUGH THE PAST b/w ELECTRIC CHAIR (suicide squeeze) (link)

SUMMER CATS YOUR TIMETABLE b/w TV GUIDE (slumberland records) (link) 

GARLANDS YOU NEVER NOTICE ME b/w CONTINUE (big pink cake) (link)

VERY TRULY YOURS GIRLS TELL YOU SECRETS b/w SLEEP WITH THE CLOUDS (cloudberry records) (link)

EVANS THE DEATH THREADS b/w I'M SO UNCLEAN (fortuna pop!) (link)

BALKANS EDITA V b/w CAVE (double phantom) (link)

GHOST ANIMAL IN YOUR ROOM b/w SINGLE MAN (amdiscs) (link)

THE HAIRS KOOL GAWD EP (magic marker) (link)

gold-bears. interview #44

When I first listened to Gold-Bears I had no information about the band. With fuzzy guitars, heartfelt lyrics and a lo-fi feeling, I immediately placed their music somewhere between the late 80's and early 90's. Well, maybe the fact that the song I was listening is called 'Record Store' also helped.
But this 4 piece band coming from Atlanta is quite new and released their debut album 'Are You Falling In Love?' last month via Slumberland Records. I can't think of a better label to release them, since their music resembles a lot of the seminal bands Slumberland released during its first years.
Maybe comparisons with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are almost inevitable, but Gold-Bears' music walks into a rawer path; an early 90's indie rock path that's nostalgic of punk and C86 aesthetic.
The album is a shimmering tale about love and 'Are You Falling In Love?' - as you'll read on our interview, works more as a self referential, metalinguistic question than anything else.
'Record Store' (album opener and first single) is definitely the song that soon will have kids shouting along in big festivals across the world.
Enjoy Gold-Bears, pretty sure you will fall in love (sorry, I had to make this crappy joke).
  Gold-Bears - Record Store by Slumberland Records


Our interview is with Jeremy, Erich and Santiago. We talked about how it all started... recording sessions after busy workdays... proud DIY sense... bits and pieces of sound coming from all over and more.

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