Thanks to all the bands who submitted music to ‘Janglepophub Towers’ this week. These are the acts that I enjoyed the most.
Please remember to try and support these acts in any way possible as a purchase of their music and/or giving them lashings of social media love will help keep them around for longer!
Dropkick
Track: Feeling Never Goes Away From: The Secenic Route (EP) Label: Self Released Out: Album out 07 Feb 2020
Teenage Fanclub meets the absolute sweetness of Allen Clapp / early 2000’s The Orange Peels. Guitar pop at it’s most traditional (and best).
Sugar World
Track: Making Out From: Last Sunday (EP) Label: Self Released Out: EP out now
The new project from ex- Naps members Katryn Macko / Ryan Stanley, who give us a delicious trip back to the days when the sweetest of jangly indie-pop was being bestowed to the world by Sarah Records.
Brunch Club
Track: Pepsi From: Another Wasted Summer (Album) Label: Self Released Out: Album out now
Juxtaposing twee to a jangly power crunch, this Edmonton (Canada) three-piece hark back to a time when C86 was being created, with immediate comparisons to Miaow being the ultimate compliment.
Wilson Hernandez
Track: Making Out From: Last Sunday (EP) Label: Self Released Out: EP out now
Side project of Tennis Club front man Wilson Hernandez that keeps their fuzz and inner city surf sensibilities but adds sweeter more luscious melodies to the mix.
Justus Proffit
Track: Making Out From: Return to Zero (EP) Label: Smoking Room Out: EP out now
Lower-Fi Elliot Smith with extra jangle…a superb EP from start to finish.
Kosmetika
Track: Kicks From: Pop Soap (album) Label: Self Released Out: Album out now
Taking the laconic textures and song structures of a band like Harlem and adding ladels of fuzz and jangled melodies, Kosmetika are the latest band to emerge from 2019’s wonderful Melbourne jnagle scene.
Royal Target
Track: By My Side From: By My Side (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
Poignant ode to a deceased dad, wrapped in subtle fuzz pop that jangles in all the right ‘The Memory Fades style’ places. A truly wonderful track.
Bled Tape
Track: Feels Better in the Morning From: Feels Better in The Morning (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
MBV shoegaze characteristics with post-punk angularity guitar work being allowed to fight it’s way to front stage. A glorious mix!
Koalra
Track: Dark Days From: Koalra (album) Label: Self Released Out: Album out now
There never seems to be enough space to accomodate all the music when noise rock is this good. Grumbling with reverb and distortion, Chicago’s Koalra still manage imbue delicious jangly guitar work into the mix.
Les Gold
Track: Before I Go From: Before I Go (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
Imagine the Everly Brothers crooining melodies juxtaposed against the slightest indie rock sensibilities and you are just about in the right ballpark for this truly original Portland, Oregon 4-some.
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Lukas Ionesco
Track: Japanese Cowboy From: Japanese Cowboy (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
As with the best of all anti-folk, the listener must be prepared to fight for their listening pleasure. Here the sparse acoustic riffs and fractured vocals inevitably reward you for fully engaging in the battle.
An Earlier Autumn
Track: Paris From: An Earlier Autumn (EP) Label: Self Released Out: EP out now
San Diego duo create a sound that courses effortlessly between the stronger end of dream pop and lower reaches of jangle-gaze, infusing salacious chiming guitars at every conceivable twist and turn.
Kutyas
Track: Double the Pleasure From: Double the Pleasure (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
Morrissey vocals (without the weird inflections) and catchy tunes that casually bounce straight into jangly ear worm territory. A superb pop vibe from this Norwegian act.
Inning
Track: She’s So Political From: She’s So Political (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
Inning is the solo project of Charlottesville Virginia’s Evan Frolov. Essentially lo-fi, he mixes the slightest of gaze sensibilities to fractious muscular jangled dream-pop. There is amazing strength to his sound amid an undercurrent of melancholy.
Arverne
Track: Comedown From: Comedown (single) Label: Self Released Out: Now
Booming chiming jangle weaves it’s way through the majority of this track battling but never quite comquering the general sense of melancholy. The fight is what makes the track!
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