Six strings, shimmer, and gloriously skewed sensibilities: Nutrias blend jangly Spanish indie fey with guitar-pop muscularity channeling Flying Nun and Sarah Records luminaries, while Hamlet heaves with crushed neo-acoustic lo-fi emotionality for devotees of Elliott Smith and I Was A King. PoPo delivers Sweden's retro lo-fi jangle with alt and obtuse detours into dreamy melancholy, as I Wanna Be A Truck Driver evokes Glasgow's finest C86 and BMX Bandits-flavoured twee-pop traditions. The Happy Somethings etch sardonic social polemic into jangly twee-pop with unfettered vitriol, while Owen Marchildon marries Big Star-influenced power-pop with dark post-punk cinematic depth worthy of Echo and the Bunnymen.
The Happy Somethings
Caught in the Web (EP)
Jangly indie/twee-pop etched in a deep sardonic social polemic.
Nutrias
El Alborotado sonido de las Nutrias
typifies the brilliance of jangly Spanish indie, tonto and twee-pop acts such as The Yellow Melodies, Madbil and early Autoescuela
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Hamlet
Camp Underground & Very Victorian
can be construed as the most natural addition for those who already consider Elliott Smith, I Was A King and the recent sounds of Subjangle labelmates The Boltons and Shopfires