Release : VA-Be True To Your School - A Fortuna Pop Sampler
Artist : VA-Be True To Your School
Album : A Fortuna Pop Sampler
Genre : Indie
Source : CDDA
Label : Fortuna Pop
URL :
Date : 10-06-2008
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 193kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 25
Time : 79:45 min
Size : 109.92MB
1 Discordia - Y Sun Over Discordia 4:15
2 Finlay - Home 3:03
3 Tender Trap - Oh Katrina 2:25
4 Sodastream - Blinky 3:26
5 Bearsuit - Itsuko Got Married 2:32
6 Mark 700 - Catchy Monkey 4:10
7 Cannonball Jane - Take It To Fantastic 3:23
8 The Chemistry Experiment - You're The Prettiest Thing 5:23
9 The Loves - Xs And Os 1:51
10 Micktravis - Yvonne 4:33
11 The Butterflies Of Love - Rob A Bank 3:44
12 Spraydog - Dialling Mitt 2:06
13 International Strike Force - I'm A Tiger 1:26
14 Twinkie - TK1 3:23
15 Fanfarlo - Talking Backwards 3:17
16 The Lucksmiths - T-Shirt Weather 2:41
17 MJ Hibbett - Work's All Right (It's A Proper Job) 2:45
18 Taking Pictures - Fallen Angel 3:58
19 Airport Girl - Between Delta And Delaware 3:45
20 Mogul - Starving Hungry In Tescos 2:48
21 Milky Wimpshake - Dialling Tone 2:10
22 The Aislers Set - The Walk 2:54
23 Would-Be-Goods - Too Old 1:48
24 Comet Gain - You Can Hide Your Love Forever 3:49
25 Homescience - Small Music 4:10
For Fans Of: Indie pop, noise pop, folk popà Fortuna POP! 25 Smash Hits from the
vaults of Fortuna POP! including tracks by Bearsuit, Comet Gain, The Lucksmiths,
The Loves, Sodastream, Fanfarlo, The Butterflies Of Love, Airport Girl, Milky
Wimpshake, The Aislers Set, Cannonball Jane and many more! All for a fiver!
Fortuna POP! is an independent UK record label responsible for a whole shed-load
of great releases. Strictly a one man operation, the label has been run from
bedrooms and kitchen tables in spare time away from the day job - the evenings,
the wee early hours and weekends - for nigh on 13 years. Unless you count 0%
interest credit cards and having to re-mortgaging your flat, the label is
completely self-funded. There is no single Fortuna POP! sound, just an ear for a
good tune and the love of a finely turned lyric. ôBe True To Your Schoolö is a
compilation of the labelÆs finest moments to date. There are too many great
tracks to go into detail (read the booklet instead for the whole inside story)
but it kicks off with the lo-fi hip-hop instrumental of Discordia, erstwhile
Melody Maker Single of the Week, followed by the Sonic Youth-meets-Blur blast of
Finlay. Next is Tender Trap, led by the indiepop legend Amelia Fletcher (cf Los
Campesinos) , followed by Australian modern-folk duo Sodastream, here in
unusually upbeat full band form. ThereÆs the drunk school orchestra madness of
the ever inventive Bearsuit, the sassy hip-hop sampling latina pop of Cannonball
Jane, the Pulp-meets-Studio 54 swirl of The Chemistry Experiment, and the
bubblegum 60s pop of The Loves from their Sunday Times Album of the Week,
followed by tompaulin spin-off micktravis with local nightclub singer Garfield
Grieve on lead vocals. Glen Campbell eat your heart out. Then thereÆs the
incredible ôRob A Bankö by ConnecticutÆs The Butterflies Of Love, a song that
caused John Peel to applaud on air, the MBV guitars of Spraydog, a Lulu cover
courtesy of riot girls International Strike Force, the completely mad and joyous
Pixies pop of Twinkie and the fabulous orchestral pop of the hotly tipped
Fanfarlo. Nearly at the end now. ThereÆs jangly international indiepop heroes
The Lucksmiths, the comic ôgeniusö (you decide) of MJ Hibbett, the lo-fi New
York punk of Taking Pictures (Fortuna POP!Æs first ever release), Airport GirlÆs
stream of consciousness Americana, MogulÆs trashy synth pop and Milky
WimpshakeÆs peerless punk pop. Finally thereÆs San FranciscoÆs The Aislers Set
with a track from their Times Album of the Week, the quintessentially English
Would-Be-Goods ex of Θl records, the indiepop classic that is ôYou Can Hide Your
Love Foreverö by Comet Gain, and bringing it all to a close, the gentle elephant
6 pop of Homescience. ItÆs all here. Be true to your school.