Wesley Fuller's Forthcoming Fivepopper + Hurricane Fighter Plane

Early this morning (5:43 A.M., for you exactophiles), we were notified that Melbourne glamodpsychpopper Wesley Fuller is set to release his five-song EP, Melvista, via 1965 Records this coming July 8. Thanks to the ever-active Nathan Ford, we were able to share the title song with you approximately . . . no, holy shite, EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY!!! Karma? Kismet? All-around good klean living? Yeah, probably.

Anyway, if you missed it, you can go back to that previous post or you can listen and download it via the triple j unearthed widget below. This is only our second post to incorporate triple j widgetry, so if you missed those fab songs by Adelaide band The Arch Menaces, click here to unearth 'em.

Click here to download.

We also posted another fab Wesley Fuller song courtesy of The Active Listener's superb covers comp, Nuggets 2 Revisited, viz.:

You've probably been asking yourself, "pp, just who was it notified you at 5:43 A.M. today?" Well, it was Alix Weymouth of Wasted Youth PR. And Alix didn't just stop at notifying us, oh, no, far from. He also let us hear the following cut off the forthcoming Wesley Fuller EP, Melvista.

So thank you, Alix, for everything! You are our new best friend who doesn't actually know us and, if you play your cards right, probably never will.

Finally - and we do hope this post hasn't gone on too long - we want to post some fabulous tuneage from the aforementioned Wesley Fuller's previous band, the poetically named Hurricane Fighter Plane. We got on a little HFP kick probably about a year ago or so today, and bought everything we could, which unfortunately wasn't very much quantitatively but thrilled us deeply qualitatively. So here's what we found and bought:

We don't usually "dig" videos all that much, but Wesley and the  "Plane" made some we do deeply "dig." So here are a few of them. (Update: Thanks to the prompting of longtime visitor J. B. Goode, we found free and legal downloadables for "Aftermath" and "Tell No Lies." See below and/or click the songtitles.)

"Aftermath" is downloadable here at the late band's blog.

"Tell No Lies" is also downloadable at the aforementioned bandblog.

Oh, and (blushing), almost forgot: here's the video for "Melvista."

Nuggets Indeed: Wesley Fuller, Mysterious Clouds, Dupont Circles, Wilding, etc., etc., etc. . . .

Chuffed always sounds like something's gotten rubbed raw, but it hasn't, and we are (chuffed). Why, you ask? Well, remember that brilliant psychpop comp from 1998 called Nuggets, Vol. 2: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond? If not, that's okay because it slipped by us at the time as well, though intimations have wafted usward down through the years.

Well again, the brilliant Nathan Ford and The Active Listener have just released a boffo comp of Nuggets 2 covers called Nuggets 2 Revisited, available at Bandcamp for name-your-price download. It's one of the best comps TAL have yet put out, and they regularly put out doozies. Here are our very favorites, although we loved oodles.









For what it's worth (snide comments welcome), among the oodles we particularly loved are #s 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19, and 28. They're earable in each widget above. Read more about the original Vol. 2 here and buy it here (o, ye moneybags). Many of the originals can be sampled at YouTube, e.g.:

Faves from The Active Listener Sampler 32: The Hanging Stars, Mystery Flavors, Wesley Fuller, The Noble Krell, Tangerine Love Puppies, High Mountain Bluebirds

Mr. Nathan Ford has recently posted one of the best ever samplers fronted by the indispensable blog/label, The Active Listener. Here are our favorites, tendered with many thanks to Mr. Ford and TAL. We strongly suggest you click here and check out the rest.

B-b-b-b-but, pp, aren't all the songs available in each of the widgets below????? 

Why, yes, yes they are, you clever Thing you.








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