Thanks for joining us for another Beat The Delete playlist of new music recommendations. I don’t know what else to say really. We have had a death in the family this week. Compiling this list made things better. Thank goodness for music, hey?

Remember to back any of these bands that you like, or indeed bands in general, in whatever way is available to you. A bit of social media love here and a physical/digital purchase there, helps to ensure music is more readily available for when ‘you’ need it. 

 

Holiday Ghosts

Track: Off Grid  From: North Street Air (album) Label: FatCat Records  Out: Album out 21 May 2021

 

A Melbourne jangly dolewave sound from the deepest heart of beautiful Cornwall. This Falmouth based act mix disillusionment and sunshine with the best of them. 

Jangus Kangus

Track: Life on the Fault Line  From: Anxiety (EP) Label: Self released  Out: Now

 

This EP flirts with everything from Hannah Barberas indie pop to Biitchseat jangle-rock. A release of jangly dynamism.

Colouring Outside

Track: Dead and Dying Town  From: Dead and Dying Town (EP) Label: Self released  Out: Now

 

Project of Charles Austin (Superfriendz, Aqua Alta) and Joshua Salter (Nap Eyes, Monomyth) that moves with ease through Dunedin reference points and the more lucis mid 80’s jangle sound of an act like Felt. High praise indeed? They deserve it !

The Pivettas

Track: Feel Good  From: Nowhere Guide (album) Label: Self released Out: Now

 

Slight melancolic, dreamy textures, drift beautifully through all manner of melodic jangle. One of those ‘grower’ albums that rewards extra listening time.

Ponta Preta

Track: You and I  From: Tits Up (album) Label: Le Surf Records  Out:  Album out 16 April 2021

 

Washed out modern surf rock that hints at The Beach Boys harmonies but turns them into perfect psyche-pop, drizzled with slacker energy.

CF7

Track: Golgata  From: Golgata (single) Label: Self released Out:  Now

 

Fluttering, The Field Mice jangled riffs, meets a more obtuse Television Personailities style, vocal sparsity. It’s all in Finnish from this Helsinki based act, but it is good enough to have mass appeal beyond language.

Maria DeHart

Track: Stick In Place  From: Quarantunes (EP) Label: Self released Out:  Now

 

Lo-fi jangly rock, that sidles effortlessly into the realms of more luscious dream-pop. Reminsicent of OK Cool in their more laconic moments and every bit as indie chic cool !!!

Bang Bang Jet Away

Track: Long For This World  From: Long for This World (single) Label: Self released Out:  Now

 

Lo-fi jangly rock, perfectly addled by a Dylan nasality and chopped out twang filled melodies. One for those that prefer their jangle served on a plate straight out of the left field.

Greg Cameo

Track: Something To Live For  From: Something To Live For (album) Label: Self released Out:  Now

 

Huge anthemic melodies juxtaposed with hazy guitars and an apposite vocal sweetness, the sound of this Toronto based act assumes ultimate pretty, through massive amounts of rock grumble.

Elephant

Track: Never Know It’s Real  From: Elephant (EP) Label: Self released  Out:  nOW

 

Big Thief style sunshine with melodies that would slap you full on in the face if they were not laced with a more gentle, laconic beauty.

The Lodger

Track: I Don’t Wanna Be It  From: Cul-De-Sac of Love (album) Label: Pretty Olivia Records / We Were Never Being Boring Out:  Now

 

The jangliest of pop-rock or the most subtle of power-pop? Whatever you wish to call it, this West Yorkshire based threesome justify their inclusion on a Pretty Olivia Records roster that only deals in melodic beauty !

West and Skyward

Track: Radicalization Machine  From: In Ink (Album) Label: Self released  Out:  Now

 

Mix of R.E.M precise vocal clarity, with a psyche folk essence that jangles in all the most perfect of places.

Sydney Schizzano

Track: IDK/UFO  From: IDK/UFO (single) Label: Self released  Out:  Now

 

New york based singer/songwriter who is not afraid to express multiple musical personailities through her sound as she simultaneously drifts and punches everywhere from jangly pop rock to 70s inflected piano stylistics. A glorious mesh of sounds !!!

Tequila Sirens

Track: PVD 6/20  From: Fast Clouds (EP) Label: Pugilist Music  Out:  Now

Shaun Curran leads a multi talented gang of 10 collaborating artists, on an EP providing dulcet, sun-kissed melodies, that jangle through glorious pop rock.

Graywave

Track: Swallow  From: Planetary Shift (EP) Label: Self released  Out:  Now

Third single to be released from this Birmigham based, multi-instrumentalist, Jess Webberley. Jangled dream-pop slid under the modernity of today’s jangle-gaze, with just a slight nod of appreciation towards the seductive introspection of Hope Sandoval style vocals.

Sprints

Track: Swimming From: Mainfesto (EP) Label: Nice Swan Records  Out: Now

 

Dublin’s modern day X-Ray Spex, somehow still mange to let the faux melodies squeeze through the garage-post-punk energy.

Koalra

Track: The Forest Song From: Gigantic Noise Records (single) Label: Gigantic Noise Records  Out: Now

 

A regular to Beat The Delete pages, this Portland based act have the beguiling propensity to coerce jangled beauty out of post-punk reverb and sparcity.

Lunar Isles

Track: Pave The Way From: PAve The Way (single) Label: Self released  Out: Now

 

Imagine the slowcore, jangly ambience of Middleneck, spliced with the slightest of surf rock nuances and you have the perfect accompaniment to a night in, in total solitude, with your headphones on, in the dark. It is that kind of stunning.

Whiner

Track: Nothing For Ages From: Peace Out Cruel World (album) Label: Self released  Out: Now

 

Imagine Frank Black with a more controlled Britpop backing and a Ian McCulloch sense of theatre and you have entered the enthralling world of this New Jersey based five-piece.

Vern Matz

Track: Funny Water  From: Funny Water (single) Label: Nice Guys  Out: Now

 

Their Bandcamp bio suggest this duo are a ‘Hi-fi DIY, the duo, often described as two hooligan folk rockers who stand opposed to brunch culture‘…I am not exactly sure what that means, but the tagline is every bit as intriguing as their laconic, jangly guitar -pop.