Magic Roundabout

One of the many outfits that followed in the wake of U.K. bands in the mid-'80s who combined '60s pop melodies with noisy, lo-fi recording techniques, Manchester's Magic Roundabout's few existing recordings place them somewhere between the clamorously noisy attack of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the fragile tenderness of the Shop Assistants. They only released one song while together as a band; their entire recorded output was issued years later by Third Man Records on 7" and LP.