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 Haircuts
Words To Remember Me By (A Complete Retrospective)
Vivian Girls perfection from every aural angle
Shopfires
Holding On To Let Go
DIY pop recorded directly into a cheap laptop
The Blue Herons
Go On
beautiful jangly dream and guitar-pop