The Pastels 'Up for a Bit with the Pastels' (1987)

Perhaps the most iconic of all twee acts, Scottish institution The Pastels were formed by boyfriend/girlfriend Stephen McRobbie and Aggi Wright —known, via their records, as Stephen Pastel and Aggi— who'd both fleetingly been in early incarnations of the Shop Assistants. From their earliest singles, The Pastels knelt at the altar of willful amateurism, their raw, rudimentary, barely-together songs somehow capturing a kind of 'truth' in this lack-of-polish. Where mostC86-era bands bashed songs out at a furious rate, The Pastels were always unafraid of heart-on-sleeve sentimentality and mid-tempo balladry; and, over the next 20-odd years, they'd grow slower and prettier with each increasingly-scarce release.

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