“'80s cultish jangly indie-pop how the 60s would have done it, spliced with lofi modernity!'”
Strings wound tight and hearts wound tighter: Das Schwat resurrect the Herr Wade catalogue with elegantly crooned indie-rock, their 'wall of sound' built from a host of different guitars and a pulsating rhythm section. The Freebies splice '80s cultish jangly indie-pop with 60s girl-group charm and Ramones-battered punk instincts, closing with Adam Green-style twee-pop wrapped in Velvet Underground atmospherics. No Museums juxtapose aural layers of whirring fuzz with the most jangly of melodic underlays, while Victims of the New Math take jangly alt. lo-fi pop deep into gloriously original territory. Zenxith delivers a raw DIY bedroom confession — tambourines, stacked chorus-drenched guitars and whispered vocals recorded on a phone, addictive as the Co-Codamol that inspired it.
“'80s cultish jangly indie-pop how the 60s would have done it, spliced with lofi modernity!'”