Remember The Pastels? The indie pop group from Glasgow who influenced the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, and The Aislers Set? It’s okay if you’d forgotten, considering that they haven’t released a proper LP since Illumination back in 1997. But hey, The Pastels haven’t wasted the past 16 years. Not only did they make paper-mâché unicorns and build a snow castle or two, they also wrote a soundtrack for a 2003 film called The Last Great Wilderness and collaborated with Japanese experimental psych-folk duo Tenniscoats on an album called Two Sunsets, which they released in 2009.
Recently though, according to the good folks at Consequence of Sound, The Pastels scuttled out of their mint-green igloo (or wherever else they might’ve been hibernating) and recorded Slow Summits, an LP they’ll release later this year on Domino Records. At the moment, there isn’t much to say about the album, but there is a charming teaser trailer for a song that The Pastels recorded with Blair Young of The Forest of Black, and you can mosey your eyes on down and check it out below:
• The Pastels: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pastels/104919779578550
• Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.us
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