“...the smoothest of jangle-pop climes”
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.
“As such, rooted in lucid, jangled riffs, I'd Rather Walk attempts to 'go everywhere' you have never imagined and succeeds with aplomb”
“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...”