Moments by Spilt Milk

So, what did you do with your lockdown? Spilt Milk's Marc (git, vox) got hold of 2 gigabytes of old (2009-2011) home demos, rehearsal room recordings and etcetera – courtesy of ex-drummer Marcel – and listened to them all. Once he got used to his own cringe-worthy Lou Reed-impression vocal stylings, he had a strange suspicion they were probably the best he’d ever been part of.

Well, some of them anyway. Most of them were crap. But some seemed accidentally brilliant. He made two compilations, one of the before-Brenda-(amazing vox, percussion, glockenspiel)-era – when it was just the three of them, Marcel, Marc and Remco (bass) – and one of the, well, Brenda-era, and sent them out to friends and fiends, who confirmed his suspicions: yeah, these were probably the greatest recordings put to cell phone ever.

Glove Compartment, the still fresh subsidiary cassette label of Subroutine Records, is proud and confused to release the Brenda-era one on glorious eighth-inch tape, titled Moments, with artwork by the late, great Jacco Weener. Twelve (12!) tracks of accidental and not-so-accidental brilliance, featuring their hit home demo ‘North American Hamsters’ (“I have a neutral facial expression”), B-side ‘We Are Fucked’ (which has something of a home video: bit-point-ly-slash-spiltmilkisfucked (for some reason Bandcamp won't let me link to this)), and ten more.

If they sell enough of this one, they might consider putting out the pre-Brenda tape as well, which in Marc and Brenda’s estimation is even better. So pre-order today. You only have the opportunity to hold a hamster once.

#wearefucked

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