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The Green Pajamas If You Knew What I Dreamed Reviewed by Nathan Ford Now that youve had a chance to digest that wonderful new album by the Junipers lets take a look at another of the releases which accompanied it from Sugarbush Records. Im sure that youre all aware from my glowing reviews of Green Monkey Records excellent archival reissues of the Green Pajamas mid-eighties albums of exactly how much I love this particular band. They may well be THE great lost pop band, still recording today, and with an enormous, rewarding back catalogue. Jeff Kelly (who has always written the majority of Green Pajamas material) is a bit of a genius, a graduate from the classic school of pop songwriting who combines Beatlesque melodies with imagery youd more reasonably expect to encounter in classic gothic literature. His songs often contrast chiming guitar riffs with wistful, melancholy melody lines in a way that leaves the listener expecting a twist around every corner. All of which makes the fact th...

The Green Pajamas To The End of The Sea V A Gathered Leaves Reviews by Nathan Ford Im getting too old to keep up with all of Sugarbush Records wonderful output, but here are a couple of highlights from their last few months of releases,  lovingly pressed in small quantities on vinyl (350 and 200 copies respectively). A new Green Pajamas album is always cause for celebration, and "To The End Of The Sea" may well be their best for a decade. CD and digital releases happened earlier on in the year, but Sugarbush have done us all a favour by putting it out on lovely blue vinyl (their third Green Pajamas vinyl release). While recent albums have tried different things and had much to recommend them, "To The End Of The Sea" returns to the tried and true classic Pajamas sound of the late nineties / early noughties with Jeff Kellys best set of songs for a long time, albeit with a more knowingly psychedelic presentation, which is just fine with me. "When Juliet Smiles...