The Pale Fountains - Pacific StreetThe Pale Fountains were formed in Liverpool in 1980 by Mick (as he was then known) Head with Chris McCaffery on bass, Thomas Whelan on drums, trumpeter Andy Diagram and guitarist Ken Moss, signing with Virgin in late 1982, this was the first time the music world became aware of the work of singer songwriter Michael Head. At the time of its release in February 1984, Head described Pacific Street as "like a greatest hits LP, except we haven't had any

Invigorated by forces we can only guess at the origins of

On The Garden

Sampa the Great

B3: The Drowning Man

captures the mundaneness and yearning that isolation creates

the clerk at their favorite record store (who happened to do A&R for the indie label PopLlama)

Burrito Deluxe is certainly better than your average Country-Rock album

recorded and released in 1958

And Boat is emblematic of that – an open book of Pip Blom

A love letter to the stretch of coast a stone's throw from where Joe Mount grew up

In their storied

” “Sugar Magnolia