As testament to just how deep this world’s well of wonderful music and wonderful bands goes: A few weeks ago, i decided once and for all to go through every Sarah Records 7″, 1 to 100 (missing the fanzine numbers, of course) one by one. I don’t know why i hadn’t before. Maybe because now, through certain means, i finally had access to every record they released. The music, at least.
One hundred 7″ records is a lot of music. It was a journey that covered the pretty good to the sublime. It was a journey through music i’d already had shoved under my nose and music that for some reason proprietors of taste kept from me. Music i had never heard before, music i had heard before but not at the right time in my life, and music i had already completely been won over by and i looked to as an indispensable fixture in my life. This Secret Shine record was one kept from me, a discovery, and one now very indispensable.
This is a perfect song to me. I guess to many already familiar with more perfect songs it might be a bit precious, or sound like some third-rate My Bloody Valentine clone – a comparison the two bands’ concurrence and the state of music and pedal staring at the time doesn’t discourage. I have a feeling they’re the kind of band you relent and listen to after exhausting the big names. But to me this is better than anything My Bloody Valentine ever did (except for maybe You Made Me Realise. I love that song). So i’m wrong. Whatever. I’m so happy to have found this.
