Backwash

by Talulah Gosh

Backwash cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: K
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Compiling the entirety of the Oxford quintet's brief, frenetic 1980s recording career, 'Backwash' is an absolute cornerstone of the British twee-pop and C86 movements. The band aggressively paired 1960s girl-group melodies and innocent, lovelorn lyricism with the breakneck speed and amateurish buzzsaw guitars of early punk rock. Despite dissolving before recording a formal debut album, their hyper-melodic, DIY approach profoundly influenced the subsequent generation of indie-pop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, twee, jangly, DIY, bubbly

Tracklist

  1. Beatnik Boy
  2. My Best Friend
  3. Steaming Train
  4. Just A Dream
  5. Talulah Gosh
  6. Don't Go Away
  7. Escalator Over The Hill
  8. My Boy Says
  9. Way Of The World
  10. Testcard Girl
  11. Bringing Up Baby
  12. I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Thank God)
  13. The Girl With The Strawberry Hair
  14. Talulah Gosh (Radio Session Version)
  15. Do You Remember
  16. Looking For A Rainbow
  17. Sunny Inside
  18. My World's Ending
  19. Be Your Baby
  20. Break Your Face
  21. In Love For The Very First Time
  22. Spearmint Head
  23. I Told You So
  24. Pastels Badge
  25. Rubber Ball

Credits

  • Chris Scott - performer [talulah gosh was], bass
  • Peter Momtchiloff - performer [talulah gosh was], guitar
  • Elizabeth Price - performer [talulah gosh was], vocals, guitar
  • Eithne Farry - performer [talulah gosh was], vocals, tambourine
  • Rob Pursey - featuring, bass

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