“you’ll find elegantly crafted and crooned songs, with the ‘wall of sound’ created not by an orchestra but by a host of different guitars and a pulsating rhythm section.”
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.
“you’ll find elegantly crafted and crooned songs, with the ‘wall of sound’ created not by an orchestra but by a host of different guitars and a pulsating rhythm section.”
“Here, at any rate, you’ll find elegantly crafted and crooned songs, with the ‘wall of sound’ created not by an orchestra but by a host of different guitars and a pulsating rhythm section”
“Darren Hayman (Hefner / The French / New Starts) shares one of his earliest solo releases to accompany your rainy Summer holiday”
“This is definitely going to appeal to those who prefer the McLennan end of The Go-Betweens repertoire !”