Chiming guitars and bedroom confessions collide: Shapes Like People push jangle pop into dreampop and shoegaze territory on the flawless, hook-laden Under The Rainbow, while Liberty Belle delivers the most beautifully fragile indie-pop imaginable — pure McLennan-era Go-Betweens gold. Few Border finds lucid jangled riffs with consummate ease on Unknown Gazers, and The Kind Hills craft slacker-pop odes to simplicity that never stray into fluffier realms of contrition. Meanwhile, Zenxith keeps it gloriously DIY — tambourines, chorus-drenched guitars and whispered vocals recorded straight to phone on the addictively lofi For Three Days Use Only.

Jangle Pop releases

Anything Of Us by Goodbye Wudaokou cover art

“Manchester’s Mat Mills makes heartfelt lofi indie and dream pop, with hints of shoegaze and 90s alt rock, touching on themes of lost love, lost youth, legacy, and the beauty and danger of living in...”

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Eat It While You Can (EP) by Hideaway cover art

“...another superb noise-pop act from a South East Asia area that is rapidly cornering the market in fey fuzz-pop.”

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