Lovelife

Description

Lovelife is a six-track CD-EP by the American indie-pop band the The Julies, released on Flying Tart Records in 1996. The album was recorded and produced by William Campbell of The Throes fame, with the band co-producing. Mixed by Campbell and the band except tracks 1, 2 and 4 mixed by David Barbe. All songs written by the band.

The Julies features Chris Newkirk on vocals, Alex Yost on guitar and backing vocals, Patrick Zbysiewski on guitar, John Bada on bass and backing vocals, and Greg Hohman on drums and percussion.

In the annals of music, there are numerous bands that should’ve made it, that should’ve broken big, but for one reason or another, broke up and faded away into obscurity too soon, their meager output relegated to discount bins, Ebay auctions, a discogs.com entry, and maybe an MP3 blog or a couple of YouTube uploads courtesy of some diehard fan.

New Jersey’s The Julies are one such band. They only have two releases to their name: a self-released cassette in 1994 followed by their only label release, the Lovelife EP (1996, Flying Tart). Over the years, I saw The Julies mentioned on a forum here or a mailing list there, and always in glowing terms, but I didn’t actually get to hear their music until a decade or so after the fact, when a friend somehow scored a copy of their EP in a used CD store.

Produced by The Throes’ William Campbell, and falling somewhere on the spectrum between Luxury’s swagger and The Autumns’ goth‑y dreampop, The Julies’ Lovelife EP is the sort of propulsive, Brit-influenced indie-pop that would’ve been a smash throughout the indie music blogosphere – had such a thing existed back in the mid-90s. [Jason Morehead, Opus, October 25, 2019]

> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/lovelife-ep/1702064831)

CD-EP tracklist:

01. Drive Me Mad
02. Wake Up, Christine
03. Boy Wonder
04. Blue
05. Love Scene Seventeen
06. Friday And Faithless

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Flying Tart Records. Remastered and re-issued as a 12-inch vinyl EP by Lost In Ohio in 2020. Available at Bandcamp: https://thejulies.bandcamp.com/album/lovelife
https://thejulies.bandcamp.com/album/lovelife-the-lost-mixes

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A full-page advertisement for various new releases on Flying Tart Records, including The Julies’ Lovelife, was featured in the September 1994 issue of CCM Magazine.

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