“'...The guitars shimmer like low sunlight through fogged windows, bathed in chorus and reverb...'Start-track.com”
Picks, plectrums, and pure pop obsession: Hidden Eyes finally emerge from enigmatic silence with jangly indie and noise-pop gems that had the Subjangle founder begging via Bandcamp email for years. Baby Combat proves pop is indeed the noblest genre with fuzzy, hook-led guitar songs bristling with nervous energy and scrappy post-punk edge, while Few Border blends subtle gaze inflections with beautifully lucid jangled riffs found with consummate ease. Liberty Belle delivers beautifully fragile indie-pop for those who prefer the McLennan end of The Go-Betweens, and Mythical Motors celebrates twenty years of pioneering crushed lofi power-pop — the unsung absolute pioneer the current jangly scene never knew it needed.
“'...The guitars shimmer like low sunlight through fogged windows, bathed in chorus and reverb...'Start-track.com”
“'Every Room Is An Escape Room' both broadens and refines the jangly power pop of the trio’s debut, If You Play Expect To Pay, stripping the sound back to its basic elements while introducing some f...”
“'Counterintuition' once again highlights the sheer brilliance of this consistently remarkable jangly indie-pop act”
“Mirror Skies traverses themes of lost love, yearning, childhood, legacy and the beauty and danger of living in the past across a kaleidoscopic array of tracks, ranging from jangly dream pop to shoe...”
“The Sundries serve as a perfect reminder of the lasting significance and influence of the '90s jangly indie-pop scene, represented by labels like Shinkansen Recordings and Elefant Records.”
“Over the course of several releases on our Subjangle label it is has been wonderful to see this talented jangly, college rock acts' fanbase and critical acclaim increase beyond measure.”
“like early R.E.M. or any number of other groups, obscure to popular, ranging from North Carolina to New Zealand and beyond”