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Release Date Friday 27th November 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Consummate selector DJ Sundae returns to Efficient Space with Nothing Ever Was, an immaculate
compendium of phantom independent melancholia spanning '60s/'70s village green folk, outsider shoegaze
and new millennium domestic pop. Each recording an emotional exorcism, Sundae breathes oxygen into
music that was barely there in its own time, made in quiet places and crawl spaces, shared only with a
precious few via private presses, hobby labels and now-decaying CD-Rs.
A deeper, more personal exploration of Sky Girl's sentimental songwriting, Sundae found himself amassing a
cache of tracks too undeniable to remain confined to his anonymous mixtapes for TTT, P.A.M. and Good
Morning Tapes, or bi-monthly hour on NTS Radio. Again his emotional sorcery draws together an unlikely
cast, their unwritten narrative assembled from fragmented memories of past lives left behind by future horse
trainers, ketamine therapists and Fab Four cover band careerists.
With not a second squandered across 1LP, it took a village to bring this new companion into being, with
David Bergot's forensic audio restoration, dreamlike imagery from Matthieu Crozier, Ivan Liechti's
elegant design and a perceptive foreword by kindred spirit Jessica Pratt.
Free of any prescribed epoch, continent, scene or rarity, Noughties homemade indie pop opens both sides
with the 4-track wonders of The Motifs and Betelmire, unlinked contemporaries finding their place
alongside Andrew Jay's Crazy Horse rust, the regional-garage adolescence of Pauline Scribner and the
anaesthetised Mancunian guitar-poetry of the late Quigley.
The remaining coordinates zigzag between the UK and US. Folk wayfarers John Strang & Valentine Lewis
Lloyd, Virgin Insanity, Kusudo & Worth and Penny Wager's spartan Garden of Eden acoustica find their
mirror in Empress and Slumber's close-quarters indie pangs. Chicago power pop fixture Phil Angotti is
caught at his most tender, while Teri Rini takes the final bow with her universe-stopping hotel lounge torch
song.
Tracklist: 1. The Motifs - Matches 2. Andrew Jay - How Long 3. Quigley - Falling From Trees 4. Slumber - Wasteland
5. Virgin Insanity - For A While 6. Phil Angotti - World's Apart 7. Betelmire - Preston Parker 8. Kusudo & Worth -
Something From Nowhere 9. Penny Wager - Gnostic Serenade 10. Empress - Cause To Doubt 11. Pauline Scribner &
the Peppermint Triangle - Hey Baby 12. John Strang & Valentine Lewis Lloyd - Village School 13. Teri Rini - Behind
Every Mirror
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