PROMISE 's/t' LP (Spain, Got Kinda Lost, Catalogue #GKL003) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2015 Got Kinda Lost label edition of very rare 1980 Private-Press Power Pop album by Boulder, Colorado band Promise. Originally released in 1980 on the Cumulus label.
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If you're continuously searching the margins for lost artifacts of the pop pantheon, you can find your daily dose in late period exponents of pure, lean, Beatlesque power pop band Promise. Originally issued in 1980 on the Boulder, Colorado, area band's own Cumulus label, their eponymous debut is filled with melodic, beatific blasts of pure pop, replete with ringing, jangly guitars and rollicking crunch. Co-led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Curt Mangan and Danny Mey -- with aid provided by the just-right rhythms of bassist Randy Jones and drummer Gary York -- the group created an album with precious little allying it to the punk-inspired power pop or prescient new wave of the time, instead choosing to hone in on a classicist pop sound highly indebted to those famous moptops from Liverpool. Abetted by the fact that some of the group's members had been playing together since their teenage combos of the mid '60s, the album carries an out-of-time flair across surging rockers and mournful balladry. Got Kinda Lost Records is ecstatic to give this benchmark of privately pressed power pop another chance to shine with this first ever reissue. Includes exhaustive liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things Magazine) culled from interviews with Mangan and Mey. RIYL: Badfinger, Big Star, early Cheap Trick, Emitt Rhodes, The Raspberries, Liverpool Echo, The Scruffs, Shoes, Dwight Twilley Band, etc.
"This Beatlesque power pop album somehow briefly became a 'psych' collectable, probably because it's a rare private press LP that was discovered by a few dealers who specialize in psych. So, while I wouldn't suggest anyone mistake it for something it's not, I recommend it to guitar pop fans. It has an early Beatles vibe but the guitars are tougher and there are a few moderate hardrock songs on it. The songs are consistently good, as is the singing; this is the kind of rarity power pop fans drool over. Guitarist and songwriter Curt Mangan says that only around 400 of the 1000 pressed were sold at the time. The group was a pure studio band, mainly drawn up from a long-running Denver area cover group named Joe Cool." - Aaron Milenski/The Acid Archives
- Got Kinda Lost Records presents the first reissue of the privately pressed 1980 self-titled debut by Colorado power pop band Promise.
- Filled with melodic, beatific blasts of pure pop, replete with ringing, jangly guitars and rollicking crunch, Promise carries a distinct late '60s/early '70s influence and an out-of-time flair across surging rockers and mournful balladry.
- Co-led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Curt Mangan and Danny Mey with aid provided by the just-right rhythms of bassist Randy Jones and drummer Gary York.
- Includes exhaustive liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things Magazine) culled from interviews with Mangan and Mey.
- RIYL: Badfinger, Big Star, early Cheap Trick, Emitt Rhodes, The Raspberries, Liverpool Echo, The Scruffs, Shoes, Dwight Twilley Band, etc.
- "An exciting, terrific British Invasion-styled guitar pop album full of catchy, memorable hooks, displaying a tougher, 'rock' edge than most of its ilk and some excellent softer songs. Equally recommended to power pop and '60s rock fans." --Aaron Milenski, The Acid Archives
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1 | Say Allright! | 2:14 |
A2 | Back In My Heart | 2:34 |
A3 | Guitar | 4:37 |
A4 | Later On Tonight | 3:41 |
A5 | Main Street Blues | 2:43 |
B1 | Hands Of Luck | 2:40 |
B2 | Lucky Star | 2:17 |
B3 | The Find | 2:41 |
B4 | Captain Domino | 4:16 |
B5 | Putman's Ranch | 3:02 |
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