“'Open Highway', serves as a perfect illustration of the recent journey jangle-pop has taken along the lo-fi road increasingly travelled”
Cranking up the fuzz and the feels: Mythical Motors marks twenty years of pioneering crushed lo-fi power-pop with a sprawling double album from the unsung architect of the whole movement, while Space Jaguar broadens and refines their jangly power-pop on Every Room Is An Escape Room, weaving in fuzzed-out alt-country and heartbroken indie folk. Victims of the New Math takes jangly alt lo-fi pop deep into gloriously unruly territory, refusing to conform to anyone else's song structure, and Ben Auld channels Teenage Fanclub, Weezer and Tony Molina into Loserdom — layered harmonies, Bach-inspired guitar solos and tongue-in-cheek drama compressed under three minutes a track. Power Burkas offer their raw, reckless self-titled snapshot — boundless youthful energy fuelled by the urge to speak out.
Power Pop releases