“emotionally-driven pop music”
Hook-addicted and gloriously loud: Baby Combat delivers fuzzy, hook-led guitar songs with nervous energy and a scrappy post-punk edge across a brilliant double album, while Red Cavalry writhes with infectious jangly indie-pop energy and McCarthy-style lyrical agitation on Popaganda. Trademark Issues offer a defiant indie-pop difference with irreverent brilliance, and Publicity Department crank up crunchy guitars and two-part harmonies with power pop influences distorted through 90s alt-rock sensibilities. Danila Kozyrev rounds things out with a psychedelic and catchy ride through 60s and 80s influences.
“No Museums: A homemade hybrid of creaking pop and basement rock, using an array of textural devices and hummed noise.”
“Too lo-fi and steeped in emotional immediacy to be sophisti-pop and yet too 'considered' to disregard such inferences, Armstrong's song writing and ability to resonate each note means this Handicra...”
“... finely coiffured juxtaposition of lo-fi, 60s pop inflections and pure indie guitar-pop”
“Adding perfect ink spots to the most twee of waters, the Crayon Cats add some much-needed grit to the Indonesian pop scene.”
“This album is called 'Spot the pattern' because it centers around a mystery concept-- can you clock it??”