“With the expanded sonic palette provided by his new bandmates, Wales has created a vibrant, emotionally resonant record that manages to feel both fresh and familiar.”
Jangle-pop is alive and thriving: Welsh duo Red Cavalry deliver infectious jangly indie-pop energy with McCarthy-style lyrical agitation on Popaganda, while LA's The Freebies splice '60s girl-group charm with lo-fi modernity and Velvet Underground-tinged introspection. Hamlet shimmers with Big Star power-pop energy and melancholic jangle-rock on The Breaking Point Is Grieving, and Publicity Department crank up crunchy guitars and two-part harmonies with power-pop influences filtered through '90s alt-rock. Brooklyn's Avery Friedman issues a glistening return single ahead of her first UK/EU tour.
“With the expanded sonic palette provided by his new bandmates, Wales has created a vibrant, emotionally resonant record that manages to feel both fresh and familiar.”
“Brooklyn-based Indie artist Avery Friedman issues glistening return single ahead of first UK/EU tour”
“'80s cultish jangly indie-pop how the 60s would have done it, spliced with lofi modernity!'”
“The allegorical donkey in the lion's skin, but it's a bear that wants to be an eagle that wants to be a bear... who cried wolf.”
“A retro-flavored ode to finding the seeds of a larger life in the small things that surround you.”
“Crunchy guitars and two-part vocal harmonies; power pop influences distorted through 90s alt rock sensibilities.”