A retrospective swan song, this 21-track compilation blows the dust off Sarah Records' obsession with the 7" in the best scruffy jangle pop way it knows how. You have everything from the label's first-ever release, the Sea Urchins' "Pristine Christine," to eight subsequent years of expository, shambolic pettiness fostered on the belief that listening to Smiths records could ever change the world. There's the good -- Blueboy's recreation of the Sundays by way of Orange Juice -- the bad -- Secret Shine beating the corpse of shoegazing as if it murdered their families -- and the ugly -- Action Painting's powerful, bizarro punk rock red glare; songs so unduly stigmatized that they evoked indie empathy in even the harshest of medieval poetry majors. Still, when it came to failed speccy revolutions cloaked as inveterate idealism, only Alan McGee would deny that Sarah were kings of their own pop sovereign nation.
There and Back Again Lane
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There and Back Again Lane Review
by Dean Carlson
Track Listing
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1 | The Field Mice | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
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Heavenly | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Sugargliders | SpotifyAmazon | |||
4 | The Springfields | |||||
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The Orchids | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Blueboy | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Harvest Ministers | ||||
8 | Brighter | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
9 | East River Pipe | |||||
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The Wake | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Secret Shine | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Northern Picture Library | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Harvey Williams | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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St. Christopher | SpotifyAmazon | |||
15 | The Sea Urchins | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
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Boyracer | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Action Painting! | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Sweetest Ache | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Another Sunny Day | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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The Hit Parade | SpotifyAmazon | |||
21 | Even as We Speak | SpotifyAmazon |