{"id":4754,"date":"2018-12-19T18:27:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:55:40","slug":"various-artists-woke-up-smiling-kindred-spirits-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/various-artists-woke-up-smiling-kindred-spirits-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists- Woke Up Smiling & Kindred Spirits CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last post of the year, I’d love to share\u00a0two excellent\u00a0CD-only collections of exclusive dream pop, ethereal, and shoegaze tracks from Bedazzled, released in 1994 and 1995, respectfully. I can’t help but get nostalgic during this time of year, and listening to these comps make me miss Bedazzled and the centralized US\/Canadian dream pop scene that thrived in the late 80s and early 90s.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, these compilations\u00a0showcase the majority of the acts on the label, and include rare or otherwise exclusive tracks across the board. Most notable are repeat SOR-offenders An April March, as well as tracks from Mistle Thrush, Viola Peacock, Underflowers, The Curtain Society, Ultracherry Violet, This Ascension, and of course, Monica Richard’s pre-Faith and the Muse project Strange Boutique.\u00a0Kindred Spirits<\/em> extends a little further past the immediate Bedazzled family and includes tracks from Switchblade Symphony, Purple Ivy Shadows, and extremely underrated band The Garden, who are worth price of admission alone.<\/p>\n

Of course, let’s get to the listening! Thanks for an excellent year, y’all!<\/p>\n

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Various Artists-\u00a0Kindred Spirits<\/em> CD (1994)
\n1. This Charm- Strange Boutique
\n2. Clown- Switchblade Symphony
\n3. Adrenaline- The Curtain Society
\n4. Pontus- Siddal
\n5. Falling in Love- Ultracherry Violet
\n6. Whispers- Mistle Thrush
\n7. Pocketful (Remix)- Big Hat
\n8. As I Hit the Floor- Twelve Tone Failure
\n9. Shave Your Head- Viola Peacock
\n10. Blackwell Road- Opium Den
\n11. Admire- This Ascension
\n12. Blithe Spirit- The Garden
\n13. Carry Nation for the First Time- Purple Ivy Shadows<\/p>\n

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Various Artists-\u00a0Woke Up Smiling<\/em> CD (1995)
\n1. She Is A Flower- Mistle Thrush
\n2. Cradle- The Curtain Society
\n3. In The Lonely Trees- Strange Boutique
\n4. Sense Of Skin- Where I Wake Warm
\n5. An Angel A Week- Viola Peacock
\n6. In Galleons Lap- Feast Of Saints
\n7. As Far As Forever- Johanna’s House Of Glamour
\n8. Shindo- Chainsuck
\n9. Wayve- Ultracherry Violet
\n10. Halo- Blueshift Signal
\n11. A Glendale Melody- Siddal
\n12. Delirium- An April March
\n13. Psalm To The Sun- Underflowers
\n14. Falling- Lanterna<\/p>\n

*download both here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last post of the year, I’d love to share\u00a0two excellent\u00a0CD-only collections of exclusive dream pop, ethereal, and shoegaze tracks from Bedazzled, released in 1994 and 1995, respectfully. I can’t help but get nostalgic during this time of year, and listening to these comps make me miss Bedazzled and the centralized US\/Canadian dream pop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,171,381,13,374,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","category-171","category-381","category-dreampop","category-ethereal","category-shoegaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}