It is nice to be shown to be right, every so often on 17 Seconds.

Back in February 2009, I wrote a feature on a band just about to release their first single, called Help Stamp Out Loneliness.

At the time I commented that I thought their best song was ‘Record Shop.’ Well, fast forward just over two years, and that same song (which wasn’t a single but I was so enamoured of it that the band sent me an mp3 of it, bless ’em!) is now a free download fron the rather fine wiaiwya (Where It’s At Is Where You Are). I also commented that there were several lazy comparisons that people would make about their music; but I think about from two well-known Glasgow bands, It’s like an androgynous-voiced Nico fronting Stereolab. Oh yes indeedy…

Help Stamp Out Loneliness – Record Shop by wiaiwya

Not only that, but the band are shortly to release their debut album, the tracklisting for which is as follows:

Cottonopolis + Promises
Angelyne
Record Shop
Ghost With A Hammer in His Hand
Biergarten
Palma Violence
My Window
Me, Sola & C
Cellophane
S*W*I*M
Tracy Tracy
Split Infinitives

The album is due out in May, the free single is available now.

Record Shop Day is April 16. That means support your local indie shop, do not download it from iTunes or buy ity from a big conglomerate, yes? More about this shortly…