Discography

shhh25 Various artitsts - Library Records 1998-2003
Double cd 44 songs

shhh24 Cat's Miaow-Songs for girls to sing
1 Hollow inside
2 Make a wish
3 Light the beacon
4 Not like I was doing anything
5 Note on the table
6 Baby I love you
7 You know it's true
8 Seventeen
9 What time is it there?
10 I can't sleep thinking you hate me
11 I fall to pieces
12 Let me brush the hair from your face
13 Portland, Oregon
14 One of us is in the wrong place
15 Stay
16 Smitten
17 Right back...
18 Do you think it will snow tonight?
19 The others way
20 Shoot the moon
21 Firefly
22 Barney & me
23 Millions of tiny lights
24 LA international airport
25 If things had been different
26 Crying
27 Don't worry, this isn't about you
28 Nothing can stop us
29 Peut-etre que rien jamais
30 Laisses-moi froler les cheveux de ton visage
31 Revant de toi
32 Troisieme etage
33 Nothing can stop us
34 Crying
35 Third floor fire escape view
36 Let it flow

shhh23 Cat's Miaow-A kiss and a cuddle
1 Nothing new
2 I really don't know
3 Sunday
4 Climb my stairs
5 Autumn
6 Third floor fire escape view
7 You left a note on the table
8 Short sighted
9 Icecream
10 I hate myself more than you do
11 Saviour for the hurrying man
12 Talking to trees
13 Ferry no 6
14 Aurora
15 A day in the life
16 It might never happen
17 Nothing's ever quite that simple
18 Brighter star
19 The Phoebe I know
20 Little and small
21 From my window
22 Get over it
23 Tangle my shoes
24 Sleepyhead
25 A 50's ballad
26 Dust from a memory
27 A few words
28 Make a wish
29 Hollow inside
30 Faded
31 Not like I was doing anything
32 Disappointed
33 I wanted none of this
34 Halo
35 Fire damage
36 Leather beards
37 Third floor fire escape view
38Short sighted
39 Nothing new
40 Autumn
41 Climb my stairs
42 I really don't know


shhh22 Mia Schoen-Champions
1. Ebo 4 Eva
2. Keys & coins
3. Something new
4. E. Vannini
5. Supposer
6. Turkish tune
7. Easy free
8. Home made guitar
9. Taken in
10. Central station
11. Falling
12. No mind
13. Bad reception
14. Stratocumulus
15. Night on the town
16. Your apartment
17. Mr. Charisma
18. Take it down
19. What's the word
20. Seventeen: Mia Schoen of Sleepy township and Huon releases her first solo CD Champions. It's a collection of songwriting sketches and demos recorded 1992-2002.

shhh21 Mark Narkowicz-Now, where was I?
1. 1000 tears
2. Stars of heaven
3. Deliver me now
4. What a way to end the weekend
5. Funny how things come around
6. Bad reputation
7. Sun come shine
8. Every girl (cuts me in half)
9. Mr. Leary
10. Everybody
11. Ideal husbands
12. Lights out over Launceston (live) Mark Narkowicz normally fronts the Dunaways and has always been a fan of power pop, and on this his first album are bundled up all those tunes he's written over the past few years which snap, crackle and POP. Included are 1000 tears and Stars of heaven from the previous 7" on Library which both gleam with an acousto-electric dazzle.
shhh20 Tugboat-All day
1. Next year's words
2. Self-same
3. Northern spiral arm
4. Don't care, really
5. Pause and effect
6. The sky is falling (travelling song)
7. So cold inside
8. Just like that
9. Getting tied up in knots
10. If I have my way
11. She doesn't come around
12. Love goes home to Paris in the spring
13. So much fun to be had
14. Friday afternoon: Tugboat expands the world most 3-piece bands inhabit by using vocal harmonies and experimenting with the dynamics of the songs. All day displays a rich diversity. From the pop of Getting tied up in knots, and the muted atmospherics of The sky is falling, to the spaciousness of So cold inside. If you need comparisons, Galaxie 500 and Yo la tengo would be touchstones, but even now that I've written it, they seem far from adequate. All day is an album of songs about moving on, of departures and arrivals. review review

shhh19 Shapiros-Compilation
1. Paris kiss
2. Cry for a shadow
3. Month of days
4. Gone by Fall
5. Makes me smile
6. Cut
7. Do you know
8. Hundred times
9. He said, she said
10. Cross your mind
11. Will you still love me tomorrow
12. When I was Howard Hughes These songs date back to 1994 when Bart (Cat's miaow, Hydroplane) teamed up with Pam (Black tambourine, Glo-worm) Skooter (Veronica Lake) and Trish (Heartworms) for a short lived but very productive venture. Produced by Archie Moore (Velocity Girl), these songs hi-light the beautiful harmonies and concise jangly guitar melodies these musicians have become known for. All the singles are conveniently and beautifully compiled together for the first time on the one CD. Also included are 2 previously unreleased songs. A cover of "Will you still love tomorrow?" and the original version of "When I was Howard Hughes" later recorded as a single by Hydroplane.
shhh18 Other people's children-Field of sadness

1. Birth of steel
2. Mood music
3. Beautiful rain
4. Skywave
5. The difference in you
6. Design department
7. Telephoto 50
8. Autumnal radio static
9. We're not that different
10. Sea vacation
11. Swallow rain: Ever been in love then found yourself stranded in some abandoned pastoral scene with only the sound of a buzzing electrical wire above to comfort you? Well, Other people's children (OPC) know this feeling only too well, and hence comes the debut full length CD, Field of sadness. This collection gathers songs from the past three years of recorded material, including songs from the first two OPC Library 7"s. Combining the vocals of Jason Sweeney and Louey Hart (ex Sweet William), with the added electronics, samplings and melodies from Cailan Burns and Nicole Lowrey, this album is pop-melancholia and late-night club dancing combined. Field Of Sadness lies sonically somewhere hope and desolation, and geographically somewhere between the South Australian and Victorian borders.

shhh17 Bart & friends-I was lonely 'til I found you

1. How can you tell me you love me?

2. Tokyo

3. Boredom

4. LAX

5. Rumors

6. Hounds of love

7. A song from under the floorboards

A couple of new songs, re-workings of old Cat's miaow and Hydroplane songs plus covers of the Buzzcocks, Magazine and Kate Bush?
review review

shhh16 Various artists-Pacific Highway

1. Mary Wyer - Anybody anyway

2. Mary Wyer - One step forward

3. Joel Meadows - Karma

4. Sodastream - West 45th

5. Royal chord - Human glue

6. Royal chord - Theme (?)

7. Grand salvo - Providence vector

8. Grand salvo - Ocean liner

9. Bart & friends - LAX

10. Sleepy township - UFO

11. Sleepy township - Snow in the mountains

12. Minimum chips - Rounds

13. Panel of judges - Here it isn't

14. Long weekend - Weak at the knees

15. Vivian girls - Black chair in a black room

16. Vivian girls - X-ray eyes

17. Secret sound - Untitled

Pacific highway was a radio show on Melboourne's 3RRR that championed the lo-fi, 4-track home recording aesthetic. This is a collection of songs broadcast live to air on the show.

shhh15 Sleepy township-Deep water

1. Turn it around

2. Change

3. One for the truckdrivers

4. Don't leave me here

5. City scene

6. Caribbean delight

7. Tender loving care

8. Savoir faire

9. Timeless

10. Something you said

11. Ten years

12. Christmas song

13. Best friend

Deep Water, Sleepy Township's 2nd album, is a fuller, richer and soppier work than their scratchy debut. 13 songs of hope and despair in a style that brings together elements as disparate as the Clean, the Beach Boys, Beat Happening and Yo La Tengo.

The band is supremely democratic in a utopian sense, although not without its own inner tensions, which just give the songs that much more life. Each member of the band contributes their own songs and vocal performances. Mia and Guy and Alison swap around on guitar, keyboard and bass, creating shifting dynamics between songs, all within a framework that is instantly recognisable as the Sleepy sound. Chapter Music is releasing the vinyl version. review

shhh13 Other People's Children-Transatlantic 7"

Transatlantic
Mood Music.

Somehow another unusual morphing process occurred when Jason Sweeney transmogrified into Other People's Children (or OPC as the lazies refer to it) in 1995. Born of the remaining confectionary that was Sweet William, Jason got together (with Louey Hart on guest vocals) to make their first single on Library Records, 'Skywave' in 1999. Before this, OPC had appeared on numerous compilations in both Australia and abroad, as well as selling little cassette tapes to friends. The new 7" single on Library, 'Transatlantic', sees the poppier side of OPC come to the fore, with much twiddling of oscillators and sweepers and melodic singing and drum machines and what else could you want? This one's all about decoding government infrastructures so it should be a laugh-a-minute.

shhh12 Sleepy Township-4 song 7" EP

Morning/ H & L
Reve Marine/ Central Station.

Mia's opener, 'Morning', is typical of her work: fast-paced, melodic, says what it has to say and gets out fast, but leaves you feeling infinitely richer for the experience. It's followed by Chris's song 'Love and Hate', which leans towards the heavier scale of things, though Sleepy Township can get much harsher if they want to. The verse here reminds me of the Reels' first album, and the chorus makes me think of early 70s Stones. Maybe you have other ideas. On side two, Guy's song 'Reve Marine', which he performs here in French with his usual delightful single-minded idiosyncrasy, is a loping piece of whimsy performed Charles Aznavour-style. All that is missing is the sound of bubbles rising to the surface and someone banging on a big pipe and yelling 'full steam ahead', but that's probably already been done. Mia's 'Central Station' is a good example of her mastery of the craft; it's performed as a straight-ahead pop song here, but it could just as easily be performed as cocktail jazz, or r 'n' b. - David Nichols review

shhh11 Robert Cooper-Self titled CD

Track listing: Brilliant feeling Glamour and glitz Fireworks at noon Poignant She's a stranger to me now Hard to believe Co-dependency and you More than a notion Change the weather What I wanted to say Maybe if The tyranny of parents

Robert's new self-titled CD follows on from the release of his two previous singles on Library Records "Fireworks at noon" and "If in doubt". To place Robert in a wider context he has also played in some of the best indie pop bands to come out of Melbourne such as the Sugargliders, Pencil tin, the Steinbecks and the Earthmen. The CD captures the full range of Robert's musical ability and style, from the simple acoustic treatments reminiscent of his intimate caf� performances to the full-blown Wilsonesque. Included is a version of Pencil Tin favourite "Poignant" done on piano a la Bacharach and Robert's first single "Fireworks at noon".

shhh10 Various artists-Indie Aid Abroad: A Little Help for East Timor CD

Track listing: The Steinbecks - Wings pt 2

(from the forthcoming Drive-In cd)

The Lucky Ladybugs (the Lucksmiths & the Ladybug Transistor)

(recorded December '99 in New York especially for this comp)

The Cannanes - Population~Two

(from the 12" split with Timonium released by Blackbean)

Hydroplane - Grand Central

(remix of a track from the "Hope against hope" album)

Buddha on the moon - Anyone Else Isn't You

(Field Mice cover)

Castaway Stones - Up All Day

(from the Shelflife album)

The Autocollants - Aurora

(Cat's Miaow cover from the Gas Money tape)

Robert Cooper - If in doubt...

(Acoustic version of a track on a forthcoming 7")

Even As We Speak - Until Tomorrow

(previously unreleased)

The Steinbecks - All That Is Ahead Is the Future

(unreleased, exclusive)

The Cannanes - Commitment

(B-side of a single on Harriet)

Hydroplane - World without You

(unreleased, exclusive)

Huon & Alastair Galbraith - Crucifixion

(exclusive cover of 60's folk singer Phil Ochs)

Pencil tin - Poignant