Various Artists - Step Right This Way

Artist: Various Artists Title: Step Right This Way Catalog#: Parasol-CD-047 Price: $7.50	Tracks on this CD:
	Stone In My Head - Tetsuo Iron Man
	Summerhead - In My Post
	The Hide Aches - Cupid
	Rotary Music - James
	Amplifier 108 - Turn It On
	Reverbs - Aki Yasumi
	Penelopes - My Favorite Town
	Stereo Lounge - High Tension Low Life
	Stereo Lounge - Zenbu Uso
	Rotary Music - Booster
	The Port - Ame
	blueberry, very blue - the Mongolian air blue
	Penelopes - Slow Girl
	The Hide Aches - Replaceable Summer
	Reverbs - Umi e Iku Tsumori Datta
	Summerhead - By The Sea
	Moss Grown - Waiting for Circus

A collection of Japanese Pop bands, 17 tracks in all, compiled Maki Kobyashi, Jem Magazine contributor and Lazy Cat Records gal! The long-awaited follow-up to Parasol's first Japan Pop Comp, 'Window To the World' (PAR-CD-018), released Summer of 1996.

The highlight is BLUEBERRY, VERY BLUE's luscious "The Mongolian Air Blue", an electro-sexy girl-pop glisten, with 60s harmonies and some unconsciously hummable future-pop, pure euro-sugar!

Formerly known as Parasol Recording artist Dust In My Head, now with a new vocalist, psych-rockers STONE IN MY HEAD lift-off with a glammy blast, like The Rolling Stones meets The Who!

SUMMERHEAD offers two tracks of Guided By Voices inspired Midwestern Pop grind, plenty of guitars, a rhythmic sprint, melodic and full of gumption!

The HIDE ACHES play inspiring guitar-pop with lotsa sonic extras, one track sounds our own Doleful Lions, while the other is a mirror image of George Harrison's solo singles!

ROTARY MUSIC does an organ-driven instrumental recalling Felt and a Sarah Records style guitar-mantra, that could've been a Field Mice b-side, dreamy and ever-so-slightly experimental!

AMPLIFIER 108's 70s radio pop drama and superb harmony recall our own Autoliner (Life On Mars)!

The REVERBS offer some groovy, jangly bittersweet ballads, more Doleful Lions-esque guitar-pop!

The PENELOPES sound like Squeeze (really) on one tune and Paul McCartney on the other!

STEREO LOUNGE recall a lofi ORANGER with weird reggae breaks, plus a psych-pop ballad!

The PORT are all about sophisticated lounge-pop-jangle with male vocals, Everything But The Boy?

And finally MOSS GROWN offer an aching piano-led pop-ballad with hints of dusty Americana!