AJ.Langford Author
The entire album is a masterpiece. Thought so when it came out and still think so. Great to have the vinyl.
Favorite track: Then There's Sirens.
CHEERSQUAD RECORDS & TAPES are delighted to announce the reissue of ‘Hope Springs’, the debut album from Melbourne indie rock act GERSEY. Twenty years since its original release on Trifekta Records, this version will be available on vinyl for the very first time. Fans can pre-order their copy now on limited edition green vinyl, black vinyl and digitally, with the official release date being August 21.
NOTE: due to the forced closure of the pressing plant during the Covid stage 4 lockdown, pressing of the vinyl is delayed. We will post your album as soon as we possibly can.
All vinyl includes a digital download of the album via Bandcamp which is available now.
FREE: This digital download also includes a free download of Gersey's first EP 'BEWILDERMENT IS A BLESSING' (1999), which includes the tracks 'The Floor Came Up To Caress Me', 'Automatic Transmission Blues (of Loveliness)', 'Dawes Rd, Pincollay', 'Concessions in the Modern Age', 'Dreams of Peanuts' and 'Twenty-One'.
Includes unlimited streaming of Hope Springs
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
CHEERSQUAD RECORDS & TAPES are delighted to announce the reissue of ‘Hope Springs’, the debut album from Melbourne indie rock act GERSEY. Twenty years since its original release on Trifekta Records, this version will be available on vinyl for the very first time. Fans can pre-order their copy now on limited edition green vinyl, black vinyl and digitally, with the official release date being August 21.
NOTE: due to the forced closure of the pressing plant during the Covid stage 4 lockdown, pressing of the vinyl is delayed. We will post your album as soon as we possibly can.
All vinyl includes a digital download of the album via Bandcamp which is available now.
FREE: This digital download also includes a free download of Gersey's first EP 'BEWILDERMENT IS A BLESSING' (1999), which includes the tracks 'The Floor Came Up To Caress Me', 'Automatic Transmission Blues (of Loveliness)', 'Dawes Rd, Pincollay', 'Concessions in the Modern Age', 'Dreams of Peanuts' and 'Twenty-One'.
Includes unlimited streaming of Hope Springs
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
...more
CHEERSQUAD RECORDS & TAPES are delighted to announce the reissue of ‘Hope Springs’, the debut album from Melbourne indie rock act GERSEY. Twenty years since its original release on Trifekta Records, this version will be available on vinyl for the very first time. Fans can pre-order their copy now on limited edition green vinyl, black vinyl and digitally, with the official release date being August 21.
Gersey are an indie-rock band that formed in 1997. Since 1999, the band has featured the core membership of Craig Jackson (vocals, bass), Matt Davis (guitar), Daryl Bradie (guitar) and Dan Tulen (drums).
The band released three critically acclaimed albums and two EPs between 1999 and 2006, and would tour with bands like Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Mogwai and Mercury Rev.
The band took a break after the release of 2006 album No Satellites, but reformed to support Pavement on their 2010 Australian tour. They then released their fourth album What You Kill in 2016.
"It’s hard to reconcile the making of Hope Springs without recalling the glorious inner north of Melbourne in the late 1990s. The Fitzroy scene was abuzz, a youthful and colourful indie haven. A millennium time. We tried to write timeless songs for Hope Springs. In retrospect, they were very much of their time, but somehow they live on. Hope springs eternal…" - Daryl Bradie
All vinyl includes a digital download of the album via Bandcamp.
FREE: This digital download also includes a free download of Gersey's first EP 'BEWILDERMENT IS A BLESSING' (1999), which includes the tracks 'The Floor Came Up To Caress Me', 'Automatic Transmission Blues (of Loveliness)', 'Dawes Rd, Pincollay', 'Concessions in the Modern Age', 'Dreams of Peanuts' and 'Twenty-One'.
credits
released August 21, 2020
Record and mixed by Tim Whitten through March and April 2000 at Megaphon and Paradise Studios, Sydney
Originally mastered by Don Bartley at 301 Studios, Sydney
This vinyl release mastered by John Ruberto at Mastersound, Melbourne
All songs by Gersey
All guitars, percussion, piano, farfisa, moog, melodica, glockenspiel, casio and incidental noises performed by Gersey
Trumpet by David Pye, violins by Michelle Lewitt and cello by Michelle Outram
Cover image by Bill Brandt. Additional images by Vasilios Devletoglou, Erin Davis and Gersey
Gersey is C.Jackson, D. Bradie, D. Tulen and M. Davis
This album was originally released on CD by Trifekta Records (Australia) in August 2000. A huge thank you to Tom Larnach;Jones for believing in us way back then!
Special thanks to Danny Rogers for his wonderful liner notes, and to Wally Kempton at Cheersquad for re-releasing this record. Shamon!
"You will never really pin these songs down. Without ever trying to be "mysterious" this music with its repetitions which
blur and softly distort, the detached vague lyrics and voice which seamlessly becomes another element, is".
This is the sort of punk album 99% of US acts would give their left nut to put out!! And TR brings an outstanding melodic element and some cracking vocals and lyrics! What a great collection of tunes!!! Get this album up ya, and then pass it on to your gen Z kids, mates!!! Ralph Douglas
what an unexpected thrill to stumble across this thick slice of my youth while deep browsing on Bandcamp. Heavily tinged with personal nostalgia but regardless this is a spectacular, exciting, snarling pop masterpiece. If the Beatles had first emerged in the wonderful 90s Aussie alternative scene this might be how they'd sound. Thank you for reissuing this - I haven't listened in at least 10 years (I had searched on Spotify but they weren't on there at the time) but found myself singing along Pijo
This Tulsa group's shimmering, classic dream pop has the sound of iconic touchstones like the Pale Saints and New Order. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 9, 2024