2024 finally seems to have woken up with great submissions over the last 2-3 weeks being so plentiful that another Beat The Delete will be winging its way to gently caress your aural senses in the early part of next week…in the meantime feat your ears on this little lot of 30 tracks !

Crackling with the sort of indie-anthem energy that makes even ‘olds’ like me want to stick our heads out of a car window and just head off somewhere, this I Want You single by Berlin’s Helen Frigid should be featured in all the year-end ‘best ofs’ of all the microblogs that matter in approximately 9–10 month time!

French threesome Billy Bonbon are the Beach Fossils if they suddenly found the happy button, Surf Curse if they calmed the f**k down, and just all manner of absolute jangly indie-pop cool. This Paradise single is their first new music in nearly three years and reminds us perfectly of their brilliance.

Live a Fantasy by Modern Moxie is more than just a song; it’s a powerful anthem for self-discovery and liberation. With its melodious indie rock sound infused with a dreamy shoegaze-y feel and structure, the track creates a mesmerizing sonic landscape.

Gritty guitar tones and raw vocals convey the journey of breaking free from societal constraints, urging listeners to embrace authenticity and reclaim their inner child. In a world often marred by disillusionment, Live a Fantasy serves as a poignant reminder to boldly live life on our own terms…read full review at Last Day Deaf.

When I first heard “Fingers On My Side” by Hot Joy, my first thought was that it reminded me of The Breeders’ “Divine Hammer.” At times it definitely does, especially with the line “I’m just looking for,” but the St. Louis band’s new single is much more than that. It’s a joyful single that seems to plod along wherever it wants, like it’s a warm but not too hot summer day and you don’t have any concrete plans or responsibilities.

Hot Joy are a fun indie rock band, which is something that can sadly be hard to find. “Fingers On My Side” also seems to have a little bit of a modern folk influence if you listen to it closely enough….read full review at the always on point If It’s too Loud blog.

Fake represents a sort of laid back jangly indie rock that is so reminiscent of Dehd, Beeef and Ducks Ltd, this Brother act always take precise care to add a bit of muscularity to our favourite jangle-pop genre.

Grids & Dots are the melodic noise project of visual designers Daniel and Carmen Han-Minikus, with drummer-philosopher Gray Thomas. Trying to capture the sound of their busy inner-city lives with snippets of melody and romance, principal songwriter Daniel is trying to find visual smidgens of his life in a jumble of fruit-salad poetry and quirky observations about the everyday.

Influenced by both 80s synth-pop sense of harmonies and the noise drenched shoegaze bands of the later decade, Grids & Dots try to balance melody with a reverb-saturated impressionistic sense of the cities they live in, by pushing the boundaries of indie pop with an experimental fringe that makes this superb Imposter Friends track feel akin to the Editors suddenly wanting to celebrate by virtue of a languid walk through Mt.Misery’s back catalogue !…adapted from the promo submission.

Those of you who like their South East Asian jangly twee pop on the impossibly fey side may well have found their latest future darling in this Singaporean Poetry Slam Bam Thank U Mam act, who are back from a near five-year hiatus to offer the magnificence earworm effect of this Cyclin’ Round Town single.

This Standing in the Rain debut single by the Elmhurst, Illinois, foursome The Orchids marries the jangly Britpop of The Shop Window sound to the fluttering jangly indiepop of their Glasgow-based namesakes of 80s yesteryear.

Iris (Eyelids) by Strawberry Generation Is the finest jangly twee-pop track that The Pains of Being Pure at Heart never finally found time to write and augments this sense of perfect sacharinne with jangled riffs that tumble over and around each in a quest for attention. Twee has never sounded quite so jangly!

Edinburgh based Michael Terence Kay (aka Swiss Portrait) has built a huge jangly dream-pop reputation for himself in the very short time since he dropped his first Moods EP in the pandemic hectic times of June 2020.

Nearly four years later and with superb releases such as The Crippling Pain of Happiness album and Safe House EP now gifted to the world, he is now back with this superb Talk single that is first release from his forthcoming EP that will be released later in the year.

Seattle-based jangly dream-pop chanteuse Tinsley moves within the same sultry, cinematic musical climate as greats such as Alvvays, Snail Mail, and The Cranberries as she delivers beauty with every hook and note in the wonderful Distract Me single.

Crackling with fuzz, Editors style mid-2000s post-punk, and a slight vocal mania that intimates at the Violent Femmes effect in Brooklyn, New York’s Pamphlets make the most familiar anxious guitar angularity sound in the most original way.

Hot on the heels of the critical acclaim afforded to his Fading Estate EP (released last month on Subjangle), Joel Carr’s latest The Boltons project is back with another perfect Over The Garden Wall single that fills every crevice between indie-pop and post-punk with jangled riffs aplenty.

With the iconic twee-pop sensibilities of Belle & Sebastian or The Pains of Being Pure of Heart, the bouncing melodies of The Bevis Frond, and a 12-string that jangles like a twinkling star in the corner of every melody, Lily Molita by Pantomime Horses is just about every reason I continue to write about the jangle-pop genre!

Vancouver foursome, The Sylvia Platters never fail to augment their sound with the best that melodic jangle-pop has to offer. This second Remembrance single in a matter of two months rivals the Kool Aid single that was released in January for their typical moreish brilliance.

Hello and welcome to Cult Value, the new album from Manchester-based band Oort Clod, released by Safe Suburban Home in the UK and Repeating Cloud in the US this April.We are very excited to introduce this mercurial and unique collection of songs.

The album includes garage stompers such as “#7”, off-kilter indie whining like the title track “Cult Value”, perfect indie pop songs like ‘Car Talk’ and much more. Featuring members of Unpaid Intern, the Hipshakes, Jeuce and the Early Mornings, Oort Clod was originally conceived by songwriter Patrick Glen as a fluid project with shifting members…from the Bandamp release bio.

Matt McLean and this Stealing Rims single juxtapose mid-2000s American Brat Pop with Pavement-style chunky riffs and a slight sense of Guided By Voices dulcet to provide one of these tracks that deserves to acquire cult status for today’s disaffected youth but sadly will probably not while the likes of Taylor Swift are about dissing their ex-boyfriends.

Moto Bandit cover of This Is The Day by The The evokes the spirit of the driven, jangly indie rock of Dehd whilst simultaneously having a DIIV, RGV, and Motorama sense of muscular, jangly post-punk aura to it.

From The Vapour Trails Live A Tom’s Volume 1 live album, this wonderful See You In The Next World track shows that the Aberdeen-based quintet is able to translate their studio perfection to a live environment. We can only hope that the reference to ‘volume 1’ means more volumes are on the way, and it is not just the band getting all quirky!

Taking the jangly dream-pop essence of the Alvvays aesthetic and juxtaposing it with the sweetest of made-for indie-pop vocals of Bridget Collins, this Sweet Surprise track from her Mirror Maize album is typical of her alluring beauty.

All Jeff Magnum/Neutral Milk Hotel 90s indie-fuzz juxtaposed with a sense of perfectly coiffured manic alt.pop experimentation, this Clementines single from the Zero Dollar Consolation Prize album displays Donny Ducotes’ Ancient History project at its finest.

Claiming the musical hinterland somewhere equidistant between the Rocketship sense of experimental twee-pop, early Madbil tonto-pop, and The Yellow Melodies brushed fuzz-pop, Fandor drizzles originality all over the familiarity of favorite modern acts.

Howlin Banana’s flagship Fontanarosa act is back with this second Heartland single from their forthcoming Take A Look At the Sea album (out on April 9, 2024), which promises a whole world of superlative jangle rock spliced with a post-punk edge.

New Zealand’s Lunavela and the unbridled passion, folk rock classicalism meets shuffling power drumming meet retro psych rock atmospheres on “Dead Soldiers”!…American Pancake Twitter (@AmericanRobb)

“Cold In The Daylight” is the latest single by The Simpletons, a Dallas-based indie rock group. It’s their first song in 2024 that serves as a perfect follow-up to “Straight Into The Sun,” “Wishing The Day,” “and Trampling Roses,” excellent singles and EP released last year.

However, “Cold In The Daylight” carries many innovations in songwriting, composing, arranging, and recording, while Marty-Willson Piper’s production brings all these qualities upfront…read full review at the Thoughts Words Action blog.

Filling the crevices between Superchunk incessant and The Lemonheads 90s guitar-pop melodic with as much 2nd Grade-style modern power-pop as they can lay their hands upon, this Police Me single by The Pretty Flowers snaps and batters melodic in their own inimitable crunch-laden way.

Ryan Allen and His Extra Arms (now just Extra Arms) have always had the propensity of taking jangly power-pop as close to jangle-punk as you can get without going all mohawk. I Don’t Wanna Surrender is the first single released from their Radar album that is out 03 May 2024 and thankfully continues such an enthralling vibe.

Used to be fun‘ (by Seasonal Falls) is about becoming more like an adult, and how that process can be a bit of a struggle. Not only for the main character, but also for his friends (or rather, his friends). Close old friends may be upset if you miss more parties and have to constantly think about your partner and children. Some people with increased responsibilities may call this process “growing up,” while others may feel that the person is becoming increasingly lame and boring.

 Both opinions are probably correct. Just for the record, the main character above is the one who wrote this song. Keeping party friends and family happy at the same time became increasingly difficult and required some growth. It hasn’t been easy, but the new way of life has been equally rewarding, and most people seem to have to face the challenge sooner or later….taken, adapted and translated from the Niche Music site.

Moving within the same circles as sounds like 90s jangly power-pop acts such as Dropkick, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, Hanemoon etc, Chicago foursome The Second Summer augment this beautiful foundation and indeed their new Undertow EP with crunchy guitars that somehow seem to melt into huge  melodies.

Unwed Sailor has this profound ability to weave this emotive story within their vision, through the textures and the adventurous melody that designates the journey of “Blue Tangier“, the audience can appreciate the wealth of affection laced into the attributes of this impressive arrangement.

As the track dynamically shifts and twists through its voyage, further tones are introduced, flirting with the already vast and expressive atmosphere that hooks the listener…read the rest of a truly great review at Circuit Sweet.