The Comedy of Errors: Sun Carriage - A Kiss to Tell (29 May 1992)

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Even if I disliked this track, it would probably still have made the cut given that Sun Carriage came from Plymouth and even though I come from the other side of the Tamar, West Country boys have to stick together.
Formed in Plymouth but matured in Camden, Sun Carriage briefly flared in the early 1990s with a sound that was a million miles away from The Scene That Celebrates Itself or shoegaze with a combination of drip feed lyricism and swamp rock riffs. They released two EPs on Wiiija Records of which A Kiss to Tell was the last of them.  The contents of the EP, which are presented in full on the video, were studio versions of tracks that the band had recorded in a Peel Session nearly a year earlier.  Peel himself was horrified that the EP had been recorded in August 1991 and had escaped his notice until now.  A Kiss to Tell takes its time to get going with verses that feel like the listener is gazing through a heat haze while having water drops falling onto an exposed scalp.  Eventually, it ratches up the intensity before going out in a blaze of hammer head drum/guitar interplay that sees Sun Carriage encroaching into grunge territory.  Maybe, this would have been a sign of their future direction had they not called it a day in early 1993.  For myself, while A Kiss to Tell has plenty of interest, I think they would have stood a better chance of making a third release if they had put B.A.B.E., the second track on the EP, out front as the lead track given that it had a lot more hit potential.

A Kiss to Tell covers the first 5:57 of the video. The third track, Written By... starts at 9:35.

Video courtesy of bonbonfabrik