Tompot Blenny
A tompot blenny is a small intertidal fish common in the waters around Great Britain. It's also a duo from the East Midlands of England whose sparse, largely acoustic music resembles a cross between the jangled nerves of mid-period Go-Betweens and the gentle lullabies of the Softies. The duo, which formed in the mid-'90s, consists of singer and bassist Carl and guitarist Craig (in true U.K. indie pop fashion, they don't use their last names). Tompot Blenny was one of the first groups signed to Shinkansen, the label started by Matt Haynes after the dissolution of his fabled indie imprint Sarah Records. Their first EP, Thinking of Ways of Keeping You Warm, was a three-song 7" and only the second release on the label, appearing in May 1996. That November, the duo released a follow-up, Green Is the Best Colour, the CD of which included the three songs from the first vinyl-only EP. This EP also included the dreamy "The Short-Haired Girl in the Left-Legged Pineapple," a musical tribute to a sales clerk at a peculiarly named record shop in Loughborough that's among the most tongue-in-cheek appraisals of the indie-kid lifestyle this side of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.
Little was heard of Tompot Blenny after those two releases; the band made no recordings as the core duo experimented unsuccessfully with expanding into a proper full-sized band. Carl and Craig did eventually add drummer Alan, who made his debut on the group's first proper album, Found Under Blankets, released in November 2000.
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Discography
12 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Feast of Stephen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tompot Blenny on 1 Dec 2021
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Green Is The Best Colour
Alternative & Indie - Released by Shinkansen Recordings on 11 Nov 1996
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Found Under Blankets
Alternative & Indie - Released by Shinkansen Recordings on 20 Nov 2000
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The Distance Between Firebreaks
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tompot Blenny on 22 Jun 2022
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Our Lady of the Rope
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tompot Blenny on 28 Oct 2021
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We All Dance Backwards
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tompot Blenny on 31 Mar 2021
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Heartmaps
Alternative & Indie - Released by Beanytown recordings on 2 Nov 2017
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Rollercoasting
Alternative & Indie - Released by Beanytown recordings on 27 Aug 2019
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Someone to Turn out the Light
Alternative & Indie - Released by Beanytown recordings on 7 Feb 2020
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Sketches From Longhamville
Alternative & Indie - Released by Shinkansen Recordings on 1 Jan 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo