SFCC's Track and Field teams (men’s and women’s) competed at the Wildcat Invitational hosted by Culver-Stockton College inside Ellison Poulton Stadium in Canton on Saturday.
‘Heart-tugging, oddball pop’: Wasuremono. Photograph: William Southward
‘Heart-tugging, oddball pop’: Wasuremono. Photograph: William Southward
Sat 24 Apr 2021 09.00 EDT
In Japanese, the word “wasuremono” describes something forgotten or left behind – you’ll hear it to describe luggage left on railway platforms. But there’s a hint of longing and nostalgia there too, which chimes perfectly with the technicolour chamber pop of Wasuremono, the band whose members hail not from Tokyo but from Bradford on Avon.
The four met at school, with keyboardist Madelaine Ryan, drummer Isaac Philips and bassist Phoebe Phillips coalescing in 2013 around singer and songwriter Will Southward. By 2016 they’d won praise from Steve Lamacq and Lauren Laverne thanks to their single Cuddling – a song that conjures the spirits of Can, Clinic and 80s children’s TV. Today, Wasuremono’s sound has evolved in synchrony with what sensorially deprived music lovers need: heart-tugging, jo