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[362] - Cheval Sombre - I Found It Not So / Where Did Our Love Go

This Cheval Sombre single was released in 2008 by Static Caravan and contains I Found It Not So on the a-side. It was produced by Sonic Boom and has instrumental contributions from both Dean and Britta. Britta also mixed it.

Cheval Sombre - I Found It Not So
Cheval Sombre - I Found It Not So

These two sides of softly building melancholia find Cheval Sombre teaming up with Sonic Boom, who features here as well as lending production touches, and with Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna...) and Britta Phillips (Luna).

I Found It Not So is infused with a sense of sleepy reverie; a low-key lullaby which echoes and chimes while floating around your sub-conscious. Sumptuously trip-wired with sveltely layered psychotropic glazes of looping out of body transcendental hypnotics, plangent guitar melodies creep and intertwine, moving to a warm climax. It's all topped off with barely-there vocals, a whispered dream filled with a sense of longing which belies the almost post-coital atmosphere.

Static Caravan website, 2008

In 2009 Dean & Britta played a show at St. Giles in the Fields in London and Cheval Sombre provided support. Dean and Britta, and Sonic Boom joined him to play I Found It Not So:

Cheval Somre - I Found It Not So (London, 2009) (play on YouTube)

Dean and Britta had covered the song for their 13 Most Beautiful project that debuted at the end of 2008.

I also saw Cheval Sombre (without Dean or Britta, but with Sonic Boom) at St Pancras Old Church in 2012 which was released on cassette (and digital) by Sonic Cathedral. Although, when I say I saw Cheval Sombre…

Cheval Sombre - London 2012
Cheval Sombre - London 2012

The b-side of this single has a cover of The Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go which closed that London show and is also on the live album.

  • Catalogue Number: AHFOW 11/063
  • Artist: Cheval Sombre
  • Title: I Found It Not So / Where Did Our Love Go
  • Format: 7”
  • Bought direct from Static Caravan for £4 plus postage.

Previously in my record collection: