Glenn MacDonald/TWAS wrote:
Dream-pop, left unchecked, can develop into fully fledged shoegazing. Sarah's one serious shoegazing band was Secret Shine, who had 53, 61, 71, 89 and 615. The full Secret Shine album, Untouched, is one of my personal Sarah favorites, and one of the few that I find myself listening to without consciously thinking about the fact that it was a Sarah record (not that Sarah awareness is a bad characteristic of my experience of the others). Waves of guitar feedback crash over banging drums and driving bass, with delicate tendrils of coed vocal harmonies snaking through the noise. I can happily float in this whir for hours.
Scott Purnell of Secret Shine wrote:
Secret Shine’s first album released on Sarah Records. Shoegazy, helium vocals, with mummuring and crashing guitars, described in one review as how the ‘Cocteau Twins would sound if they stopped speaking gobbledygook and cranked up their amps’, apparently.
Secret Shine
Untouched
1993.03.31; Sarah (UK); SARAH 615 CD
TITLE COMPOSER
1. Suck Me Down ············ Scott Purnell and Jamie Gingell
2. Temporal ·································· Jamie Gingell
3. Spellbound ································ Jamie Gingell
4. So Close I Come ········· Scott Purnell and Jamie Gingell
5. Into The Ether ·········· Scott Purnell and Jamie Gingell
6. Toward The Sun ·········· Scott Purnell and Jamie Gingell
7. Underworld ································ Jamie Gingell
8. Sun Warmed Water ········ Scott Purnell and Jamie Gingell
Recorded at PIJ Studios, Bristol
Engineered by Corin Dingley, September, 1992
Mixed at La-di-da Studios, Brighton
Engineered by Grant Lyons, November, 1992
Produced by Jamie Gingell and Scott Purnell
Photograph by Richard Forsyth
SECRET SHINE:
Jamie Gingell - vocals
Scott Purnell - guitars
Nick Dyte - drums
Dean Tyler - guitars
Kathryn Smith - vocals
Dean Purnell - guitars
Paul Vowles - bass
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