Spring Came, Rain Fell" sounds like a cheery tv commercial in print, until you are hit with the opening lines of Club 8's signature hidden darkness: "Waiting for the fall, to take us al. Angergård sings on "Close to me" a 90s Manchester scenester sounding piece, where "Baby, I'm not sure if this is love" returns to Karolina. I Give Up" is an experimental fragment, so reminiscent of St. Etienne's early days, that is to resurface in full later in track 11 "The Girl With The Northern Soul Collection", a polished quiet shuffle using the rhythms that became so popular in the Manchester sound of the early 90s. "Friends and Lovers" is a dubby bare bones track with Komstedt on radio thin voice.
The resulting album, released in 2002, is named Spring Came, Rain Fell. The 2003 follow-up album, Strangely Beautiful, peaked at number 18 on the CMJ charts in the US. For the first time since 1999, the band released a single from the album and a corresponding video. Backed by five exclusive tracks, the song "Saturday Night Engine" was released as a single in the spring of 2003. The video made it to number 16 on the Up North chart on MTV Nordic. Afterward, Angergård formed a band called The Legends, which recorded three albums between 2004 and 2006. Club 8's album The People's Record, was released on 18 May 2010, and was produced by Jari Haapalainen Club 8 has since released two further studio albums: 2015's Pleasure, and their latest, Golden Island, which came out in 2018.
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Baby, I'm Not Sure If This Is Love. Club 8. Yazar: Johan Angergård, Besteciler: Johan Angergård. CD - Stereo Test Kit 003). However, the real appeal of the album comes from Karolina Komstedt's pillow-soft, slightly accented vocals, which have the kitschy allure of Claudine Longet, only with better enunciation and much less tendency to go off-key. As on the debut, the two songs sung by Angergard are the weakest on the album. The songs are melodic, sweet, melancholy - the duo ended their romantic relationship during the writing of the album - and just this side of twee. Club 8 do the warm'n'fuzzy indie pop thing as well as anybody.
1 | We're Simple Minds |
2 | Spring Came, Rain Fell |
3 | Spring Song |
4 | Close To Me |
5 | Baby, I'm Not Sure If This Is Love |
6 | The Chance I Deserve |
7 | I Give Up Too |
8 | Friends And Lovers |
9 | Teenage Life |
10 | Karen Song |
11 | The Girl With The Northern Soul Collection |
12 | We Set Ourselves Free |
13 | Things We Share |
14 | Mornings |
15 | You And Me |
16 | Don't Stop The Night |
17 | Sounds From The Gulfstream |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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LAB022 | Club 8 | Spring Came, Rain Fell (CD, Album, Dig) | Labrador | LAB022 | Sweden | 2002 |
LAB022R | Club 8 | Spring Came, Rain Fell (CD, RE) | Labrador | LAB022R | Sweden | 2008 |
AHA!036 | Club 8 | Spring Came, Rain Fell (CD) | Hidden Agenda Records | AHA!036 | US | 2002 |
Mech009cd | Club 8 | Spring Came, Rain Fell (CD, Album) | Mechanism Records | Mech009cd | Italy | 2003 |
CHL-019 | Club 8 | Spring Came, Rain Fell (CD, Album) | Chili Music | CHL-019 | South Korea | 2005 |