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Pacific Kiss by Rat Columns on Tough Love Records (the album sleeve is a pale yellow with black print depicting an illustration of a flying horse in a night sky in a wooden frame; the band name and title are printed along the left-hand edge)
Black and white photograph of Rat Column's David West playing live (West is singing into a microphone and playing a telecaster guitar; the movement of his hands and guitar create a blurred effect in the low-light photograph)

Rat Columns - Pacific Kiss

TOUGH LOVE RECORDS

Pacific Kiss is the fourth album from Australian musician David West’s underground pop band, Rat Columns, and them plunging headfirst into an azure sea of indie-pop. The tones are bright and optimistic, though fans of confusion and gloom will still find solace in the album’s darker moments, of which there are a few. 

Rat Columns emerged from San Francisco via Perth, Western Australia in the late 2000’s with the mope ’n’ jangle of their first self-titled cassette release, from which several tracks were drawn for their first vinyl release, a four-song 7” on the San Francisco based indie label, Smartguy Records. From that moment, West and a constantly evolving troupe of friends and co-conspirators have forged a persistent trail of albums and EP’s on a number of interesting small labels such as RIP Society, Upset The Rhythm, Blackest Ever Black, Syncro-System, Adagio 830 and now the London-based Tough Love Records, who have also released many of David’s eponymous pop records. 

Pacific Kiss was primarily recorded in a dingy but comfortable practice space in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but is a record for those astral voyages into the spheres conducted from bedrooms, kitchens, grassy fields and open car windows. 

 

TRACKLIST: 
  1. Hey! I Wanna Give You The World 
  2. It’s Your Time (to Suffer) 
  3. I Can’t Live on Love 
  4. No Stranger to Life 
  5. Candlelight 
  6. She’s Coming Home 
  7. Feeding the Fire 
  8. Soul Kiss I 
  9. Athens 
  10. Soul Kiss II 

 

  • Pastel-green vinyl LP limited to 300 copies 
  • Available exclusively from indie stores 

 

 


 

see also: 
Rat Columns - Candle Power   LP 
 

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