Chloë Alper began her music career in the Riot Grrl band Period Pains, probably best known for their 1997 single Spice Girls (Who Do YOU Think You Are?).
She joined The Sunset Sound as a vocalist as the band morphed into PRR, becoming the bassist when the previous one left. After PRR's farewell shows in 2011, Alper worked with PRR collaborator Tom Bellamy, formerly of The Cooper Temple Clause and Robin Coudert of Pheonix. She and Coudert performed the song Juno, which featured on the soundtrack of the 2013 movie Maniac, and True Love from the unreleased soundtrack to the 2017 movie Amityville: The Awakening. Both are credited to Rob with Chloë receiving a 'featuring' credit.
She subsequently formed Tiny Giant with Mat Collis, releasing four singles. After rejoining PRR, Alper stated that it was still the intention for Tiny Giant to release an album.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Gel & The Sunset Sound
Gel was a Reading-based band featuring Jon and Anders prior to The Sunset Sound.
The band was signed by label head Seymour Stein to Sire, home of Madonna and the Ramones. They were dropped before they could release a note, but some material did later appear on the Cargo label. Gel were active between 1998-2000.
Extra special thanks are due to Ryan Frost for his significant assistance with the Gel part of the discography.
The Sunset Sound was a Reading-based band featuring Jon, Anders, Chloë and even, for a short while, Jim. They were active 2001-03. Their second single, Border Town, featured Asleep Under Eiderdown as a b-side.
Some of their material later re-appeared under the Pure Reason Revolution moniker, but there was a brief time when the band was known as Wow, The Gold Stars and Pendulum Dawn.
The Sunset Sound's material was still available from Velocity Recordings in the early 2010s, but no longer seems to be available.
You can read more about the history of Gel, The Sunset Sound (and PRR) on Wikipedia.
The band was signed by label head Seymour Stein to Sire, home of Madonna and the Ramones. They were dropped before they could release a note, but some material did later appear on the Cargo label. Gel were active between 1998-2000.
Extra special thanks are due to Ryan Frost for his significant assistance with the Gel part of the discography.
The Sunset Sound was a Reading-based band featuring Jon, Anders, Chloë and even, for a short while, Jim. They were active 2001-03. Their second single, Border Town, featured Asleep Under Eiderdown as a b-side.
Some of their material later re-appeared under the Pure Reason Revolution moniker, but there was a brief time when the band was known as Wow, The Gold Stars and Pendulum Dawn.
The Sunset Sound's material was still available from Velocity Recordings in the early 2010s, but no longer seems to be available.
You can read more about the history of Gel, The Sunset Sound (and PRR) on Wikipedia.
Bullet Height
After PRR split in 2011, Jon Courtney moved to Berlin where a mutual acquaintance introduced him to Sammi Doll, who was in the middle of a IAMX tour that was going a bit awry. They started working together and put out the album No Atonement as Bullet Height.
The album was heavier than anything PRR had ever done, but with PRR alumni Anders on drums and his wife Susanne on backing vocals (as she had done on Hammer and Anvil), there was certainly plenty to recall the guitarist's former band, perhaps most strikingly Wild Words.
Then things go slightly strange. After a few tours together, the band went off to the States to tour but without Jon. A few messages are put out to say that this was always the plan but always rang a little hollow, and the next thing you know PRR seem to be back on... Will there be more Bullet Height? Who knows?
BH's discography is made up of a single album and lots of streaming only tracks. This is the first time that I've had to worry about streaming only stuff. I've included it, but it feels so ephemeral that it doesn't sit entirely comfortably - it's just an album track with a different photo in most cases. What do you think? Should such stuff be in a discography if it's no different from the album versions?
The album was heavier than anything PRR had ever done, but with PRR alumni Anders on drums and his wife Susanne on backing vocals (as she had done on Hammer and Anvil), there was certainly plenty to recall the guitarist's former band, perhaps most strikingly Wild Words.
Then things go slightly strange. After a few tours together, the band went off to the States to tour but without Jon. A few messages are put out to say that this was always the plan but always rang a little hollow, and the next thing you know PRR seem to be back on... Will there be more Bullet Height? Who knows?
BH's discography is made up of a single album and lots of streaming only tracks. This is the first time that I've had to worry about streaming only stuff. I've included it, but it feels so ephemeral that it doesn't sit entirely comfortably - it's just an album track with a different photo in most cases. What do you think? Should such stuff be in a discography if it's no different from the album versions?
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