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Sand In My Shoes

by Coloring Book

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Summer shoreline waves were crashing Lying in the sand I built castles you drew pictures We walked hand in hand As you were drawing seashells seagulls Dove down from the sky Into your ocean turquoise blue I wondered why Colors make your dreams come true There's sixty four that we can both use But green's my favorite yours is blue Is it true what love can do?
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Time To Grow 03:34
And you're on my mind And if you ask I'll try and explain You're all I think of again and again I'm scared of how you make me feel Up at the top of a ferris wheel And wishing it would end All I really ask is time to show you Our love needs the chance to grow All the love you need I'm your answer And you're on my mind And you always look the same And I just want to Never have to miss you again
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Gull Cottage 02:18

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The debut single from Coloring Book positively glows with enthusiasm for pristine pop, alternately reminiscent of the Marine Girls, early Flying Nun recordings and stateside popsters HoneyBunch. Jen Matson's tentative vocals filter wistfully through "Sand in My Shoes," a dreamy seaside ballad, while "Time to Grow," sung by Coloring Book's other full-time member, Jon Chaikin, is a breathy, head-over-heels love song with a sunny, pitter-pattering tempo. Two instrumentals, rife with skyward gazes, delicate guitar pluckings and sparse rhythms, round out the single. —CMJ Weekly

This is Jen (who once did the fine zine Non-Stop Diatribe, which contained a Go-Betweens discographic pictorial. I saw Coloring Book recently at an unpleasant NY venue and they covered "Love Goes On") singing on "Sand In My Shoes," which is light and pretty like Felt mixed with the Carousel. And I adore "Walking Distance," the instrumental which would sound appropriate on a warm sunny morning in the Alps. (Conflict-of-interest alert: a friend of mine played drums on 3/4 tunes.) Jon sings "Time to Grow" smoothly—it sounds very Go-Betweens and that's never a bad thing. —chickfactor

Singer Jen Matson and Jon Chaikin have distilled the hushed, airy melodic essence of bands like the Sugargliders and the Field Mice into two gorgeously wispy songs and two mass-without-volume instrumentals. It doesn't necessarily grab your attention while it's playing, but as soon as it ends you want it to come back. Coloring Book may represent the last gasp of its particularly wimp-pop aesthetic, but its record is one of the most beautiful artifacts that genre has produced... —CMJ New Music Guide

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released April 4, 1994

Jen Matson - vocals
Jon Chaikin - vocals, guitar
Hamish Kilgour - drums
James Kavoussi - drums (on Gull Cottage), vocals
Tony O'Blaney - bass

Recorded by James Kavoussi at Toxic Studio NYC
All songs mixed by James except Walking Distance, which was by Hamish
Digital edits by Gina & Brent, Blue World NYC
Cover by Leslie Falk
all songs Chaikin/Matson
(c)(p) 1994 Non-Stop Music BMI

Originally released by Queenie Records (QL02)

All proceeds from Bandcamp sales will be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Coloring Book New York, New York

Coloring Book were an indiepop band that existed from 1992-1998 or thereabouts.

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