Trembling Blue Stars - Idyllwild (Updated)

London-based Trembling Blue Stars returns this May 14th with their sixth album, The Last Holy Writer. A stand alone EP, Exploring the Shadows, will be released by Elefant Records later this year, according to their myspace blog.

So a little introduction to TBS is in order. According to our friend Jaime, she tells me that TBS was just Robert Wratten trying to cope with his break up with his girlfriend Annemari Davies. So all the sad love songs are basically all about Annemari (even though I think it's weird that she's still in his band). It was never meant to be anything but one album, but obviously he's not quite recovered as they are on their sixth album...

Currently, it seems that TBS are just two people: Bobby Wratten and Beth Arzy. Of the four songs I've listened to, I like the Beth Arzy song the best, it kind of reminded me of their other song Helen Reddy.

Trivia: Their name came from The Story of O by Pauline Réage:

her eyes were like stars, trembling blue stars

Updated Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:04:07 CST, jaime wrote:

also to mention, beth is bobbys girlfriend now and beth used to be in the sarah band aberdeen. field mice (pre-tbs; bobby & annemari's first band together ) were also on sarah records.

of course, i did not actually get this from bobby himself so it could just be hearsay; you know how indiepoppers like to talk.

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many thanks to EL