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Even As We Speak

City of Origin: Sydney, Australia

Period of Activity: mid-80s to mid-90s, late-2010s to present

Members: Paul Clarke, Rob Irwin, Julian Knowles, Matthew Love, Anita Rayner, Mary Wyer

Related Artists: Nothing that comes to mind immediately

Discography:

• "Small Fish in a Big Machine" (1986, single)
• I Won't Have to Think About You EP (1987)
• "Blue Suburban Skies" (1987, single)
• "Goes So Slow" (1989, single)
• Outgrown this Town EP (1990)
• Nothing Ever Happens EP (1990)
• "One Step Forward" (1991, single)
• "Beautiful Day" (1991, single)
• Feral Pop Frenzy (1993)
• "Blue Eyes Deceiving Me" (1993, single)
• A Three Minute Song is One Minute Too Long (2005, compilation)
• The Black Forest EP (2017)
• Yellow Food: The Peel Sessions (2017)
• Adelphi (2020)

Social Media: Bandcamp | Instagram | Website

Somehow, simultaneously the weirdest Sarah Records band and the one with the most pop appeal (sometimes even in the same song). Sometimes you'll get weird slowed down vocals and clanging sounds from a boiler room, sometimes you'll get a country-ish indie-dance-pop song, and sometimes you'll even get something like "Falling Down the Stairs" or their cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle" that you'll swear was a chart-topper in a universe not too far removed from our own (with respect to "Bizarre Love Triangle", Frente would go on to have a hit with a similar stripped-down arrangement a few years later). Unfortunately, it was not to be in our universe, so Even As We Speak remains one of indiepop's best kept secrets.