Year Released: 2021 Label: Appetite Year Bought: 2024 My ambition of picking up weird vinyl really came true with this record. 'Nice Try, Sunshine!' is a collection of Swedish indiepop from the 00s, put together by Gothenberg-based record label Appetite. An A5 note inside the sleeve sets out the thinking behind the record: "How do you make a coherent compilation of a scene that you just barely missed out on, know nothing about or that maybe never even exists in the sense that you could even call it a scene?" The tunes are apparently based on songs shared between friends over MSN, and has been mastered from those mp3s. I picked it up in Flashback Records in Shoreditch, attracted by its cover and the fact that even though I had never heard of any of these songs or bands, someone clearly loved them enough to put them out on vinyl. It's all very jangly, twee, and lo fi, but it just works perfectly. It's pure indiepop. Just look at the titles: 'No One Goes For...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)