“'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...”
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.
“'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...”
“Has one of the finest early 90s pre-Britpop jams been dug out of the archives, despite being recorded in 2025?”
“...Matt Addison and his Mythical Motors solo recording project is the one true pioneer of todays, jangly, lo-fi power-pop scene”
“'Open Highway', serves as a perfect illustration of the recent journey jangle-pop has taken along the lo-fi road increasingly travelled”
“a summer-y blast of punky power-pop that'll have you rolling down your car windows and blasting it loud!”
“Recorded in 2006, the title track channels the spirit of Big Star and The Who and remains a little known power-pop gem.”