Fuel - Songs In The Key Of E

FUEL
Songs In The Key Of E
1991 Midnight Music

01. Honey Comes Softly
02. Love Drips And Gathers
03. My Cadence Breaking
04. Callin

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Fuel - Five Divinity Avenue (Unreleased Album)

FUEL
Five Divinity Avenue (Unreleased Album)
1991 Midnight Music

Notes :
Recorded over 2 months in Berry Street Studio London circa 1990 for release on Midnight Music in 1991, but the label went under and it wasn't released.
''Divine In Water'' mixed by Robin Guthrie from Cocteau Twins

01. The Tripping Of The Colours
02. Your Whispering Frame
03. A Miracle Of Sins
04. Firefly
05. The Dyed Sky
06. Audrey's Great Aunt Peggy Was Once A Synchronised Swimmer
07. Divine In Water
08. I Sail Through You
09. A Whisper From The Lips Of A Shell
10. Dear Mr Leary
11. Flower Shop

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Fuel - Timeless EP

FUEL
Timeless EP
1994 Diffusion Records

Fuel was shoegaze/indie band from Scotland, had strong connections and a similar guitar sound to quintessential ethereal band “Cocteau Twins”. Formed by Hamish McKintosh in 1987 and produced by the Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie, a first album “The Back Of This Beyond” was released. Undeterred Hamish produced a second album which was due to be released but the collapse of the record label meant this was postponed. In 1994 second single “Timeless EP” was released with major contributions from the Cocteau Twins, including the vocal talents of Elizabeth Fraser on the song “Butterfly Knife” and Robin Guthrie’s inimitable sound on the astounding shoegazer should be classic “Wildfire”.

'' The delayed follow-up to first single Songs In The Key Of E , ''Timeless EP'' finally emerged on a new label, Diffusion, in 1994. Hamish Mackintosh here works with regular collaborators Robin Guthrie and Lincoln Fong, not to mention Elizabeth Frazer and a slew of other musicians. Both Guthrie and Frazer contribute their instantly recognizable selves to the great opening track "Butterfly Knife," a dreamy, swoony number with a hint of Arabic music to it, just enough, breaking into a fuller arrangement at points for extra punch. The other cuts provide their own highlights, including the soaring lead guitar figure and flange wash of "Shiva," and a surprising but not bad stab at Manchester baggy funk, "Candygram." The title track is perhaps the best of them all, haunting choir effects, piano, and more providing the bed for Mackintosh's serene, breathless vocal, literally sounding lost in space and time, beautifully so. ''
(allmusic review by Ned Raggett)


01. Butterfly Knife
02. Shiva
03. Timeless
04. Candygram
05. Wildfire

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V.A. - Nocturnal - The Best Of Midnight Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Nocturnal - The Best Of Midnight Music
1997 Cherry Red

01. Sad Lovers And Giants - Things We Never Did
02. The Snake Corps - Science Kills
03. The Essence - Like Christ
04. The Essence - A Mirage
05. The Popguns - Someone Like You
06. The Popguns - Gesture
07. Corn Dollies - Nothing Of You
08. McCarthy - Keep An Open Mind Or Else
09. The Wolfhounds - Rent Act
10. Sad Lovers And Giants & The Essence - Sleep
11. Western Promise - Promised Land
12. Sheriff Jack - Everybody Twist
13. Blyth Power - Better To Bat
14. The Sun And The Moon - Adam's Song
15. Hackney Five-O - Catalogue (Of Trouble And The Blues)
16. The Invisible - Love Street
17. Sudden Afternoon - Acid Rain
18. Ever - Virgin Eyes
19. Candlestick Park - All The Time In The World
20. Fuel - Honey Comes Softley

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