CREEPER LAGOON
DEAR DEADLY
Release Date: 28th Sep, 1998Cat No: DISCO9809
Format: CDS
"WHEN I WAS A KID, I USED TO RIDE MY BIKE HOME FROM WORK.
THERE WAS THIS ONE LONG-ASS HILL, AND I'D BE LIKE `IF I DON'T
PEDAL ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP, I'LL NEVER BE A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN'."
Ever since he was young, Sharkey Laguana has been pushing himself
towards this goal. From his early life in Ohio, through a legal
name change, a series of under-achieving punk bands and a spell
in a Karmic Yogi commune in the Santa Cruz mountains that amounted
to little more than slave labour, up to his present day incarnation
in CREEPER LAGOON, alongside spiritual and musical journeyman
Ian Sefchick, Sharkey has been searching for some pop dream.
And now he's got it. With the band now signed to DREAMWORKS in
America, after a couple of self-released singles and a debut
album "I Become Small & Go", on THE DUST BROTHERS'
NICKELBAG label, those years of living in burnt-out squats in
San Francisco's Bay Area and earning a pittance working at a
cockroach-infected motel (from which the band take their name)
are about to be repaid big time.
And, in something of a coup for SHIFTY DISCO, one of the last
of the true independents, Creeper Lagoon's debut release in this
country, the fuzzy and maudlin stoner ballad "Dear Deadly"
was out in September 1998: the label's first release from outside
the UK.
CREEPER LAGOON write achingly pretty ballads, meandering songs
charmed with delicate open guitar tunings and ramshackle rhythms
that have already seen them compared to the likes of GUIDED BY
VOICES, PAVEMENT, VERSUS and long-time heroes SEBADOH. CREEPER LAGOON's rise,
it would appear, is as assured as that old long-ass hill.
THE BAND
IAN SEFCHICK - vocals / guitar
SHARKY LAGUANA - guitar / vocals / piano
GEOFFREY CHISHOLM - bass
DAVID KOSTINER - drums
They have an official
website
and an unofficial
one