Slacker-pop dispatches from the indie underground: The Kind Hills craft unhurried, jangly odes to simplicity that resonate deeper than they let on, while Superdestroyer tackles addiction and the pain of loving people you also sorta hate across a riff-and-synth-laden LP. Zenxith delivers their most atmospheric DIY jangle-pop yet, recorded phone-in-hand and soaked in chorus pedal, asking pointedly "does anybody care?" The Boy With The Greyhound Tattoo celebrates thirty years of indie-pop with a definitive compilation spanning cinematic orchestral tracks to noisy guitars, while Get Lost Cassidy Frost delivers something fun, weird, and totally its own thing.
No Museums
Pale Blue Eyes and Folk Terrors (double album)
No Museums: A homemade hybrid of creaking pop and basement rock, using an array of textural devices and hummed noise.
The Interpretation Cultures
The Interpretation of Indiepop Cultures (EP)
Glorious anglophile jangly indie-pop from the fertile indie-pop heartland of Indonesia
Armstrong
HandiCrafts
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 Handicrafts double CD/album he regularly flirts with pop perfection.