The Happy Somethings

Track: Forward Now From: Lollilops Licks (EP) Label: Self released Out: Now

This enigmatic Notts / Derbyshire (UK) based act, offer a wonderful mixture of late 80s  jangly indie-pop (with an anglophile bias) and all that was so precious about the mid 90s twee-pop scene. 

Eric Linden

Track: Walk You Home From: Walk You Home (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Eric Linden’s Bandcamp bio states “indie Rock that ricochets between Jangle Pop, Garage Rock, and Power Pop” which I would fully endorse. A sound that satiates all those 80s jangle-pop desires.

Nikky P and the Juvenile Delinquents

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

A strange (in the best possible way) mixture of The Troggs style power-pop and the lo-fi bedroom-pop cutesy, that is defining much of the best fuzz-pop these days…I appear to have found myself obsessed with this brilliant track  from Ontario’s, Nik Persaud.

Sooner

Track: Thursday From: Days and Nights (album) Label: Good Eye Records Out: Now

Chiming late 80s / early 90s jangle-pop married to a sort of Catatonia style  feminine vocal power and the fuzzy, gaze laden sounds of the modern Hater style jangle-gaze vibe.

The Late Arthur

Track: Blood on My Clothes From: Blood on my Clothes (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Finding the perfect blend between the melodic muscularity and The Bluetones and the jangle-pop commerciality of the Jesse D’Kora sound, this is one of those aesthetics that simply hurls melodies at your grateful ears !

Badvril

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

Badvril is the solo recording project of San Francisco’s Becket Schroeder, whose Golden single represents yet another example of his beautiful, laconic dream-pop meets lo-fi fuzz blend.

Little Killer Bears

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

12 string driven track, reminiscent of the very earliest of the Miracle Legion back catalogue, with just a little edge of extra darkness to give the slightest of beautiful post-punk tinges.

First Frontier

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

A stunning mix of subtle jangled riffs, the best that classic rock has to offer and ever developing fuzz-pop inflections, makes this a sound that beguiles from start to finish.

Dropper

Track: Waste of Time From: Don’t Talk Me  (album) Label: Dirty Dog Records Out: Now

This Brooklyn based threesome provide a subtle blend of The Pretenders style muted jangle-pop and a pervasive blue-collar Americana, that feels so perfectly ‘lived in’.

JW Francis

Track: Sweet as a Rose From: Sweet as a Rose (single) Label: Sunday Best Recordings Out: Now

This New York based artist / track provides a gloriously understated style of lo-fi Dream-pop, that bubbles just below the surface with energy and just above it with sumptuous pop melody.

Lunar Isles

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

South Korea based Scot, David Skimming, is a long time friend of Beat The Delete articles, with his mix of spatial dream-pop and jangle gaze vibes, that never fail to evoke a sense of introspection.

Moonguys

Track: In Loaf With You From: In Loaf With You (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Oklahoma City based, Greg Gulbranson, produces lo-fi pop, heaving with beautiful Under-stated melodies and subtle vibrancy. The sort of sound to accompany any precious moment of solitude.

Black Magick Marching Band

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

The Zutons style Voodoo rock / pyschedelic rock, that heaves with bouncing surf style riffs and the constant need for a tune ! Perfectly weird from this Chicago based act.

Zatch

Track: Love in a Space Shuttle From: Love in a Space Shuttle (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

This Anaheim, Californian based solo act of Zach Sharma, flutters lo-fi, bedroom-pop through the very slightest of jangle-gaze inflections, whilst never stepping more than a few inches away from the next earworm melody.

Day & Dream

Track: When You Wake From: The Art of Remembering (album) Label: Lilystars Records Out: Now

Twisting isolated, chunky Pavement / Yo La Tengo style riffs, through the laconic dream-pop machinations and Hope Sandoval style vocals, this North Carolina based acts presents a different kind of dreamy beauty.

Eve’s Twin Lover

Track: Share Your Tingle From: Stop Sending People to Kill Me (album) Label: Self released Out: Album release date TBA

Chicago based act that courses gorgeous, tight jangled riffs, through an indie-rock vibe that has that feeling of ‘earnest everyman’ and the lyrical dexterity to present lifes travails and normalities.

Casper Television

Track: All Your Thoughts From: Basic Cable (album) Label: Self released Out: Now

Twanging jangle married to a sense of bluegrass and Edward Sharpe style indie-folk playfulness. One of those tracks that just keep dragging you back in !

Skinny Dippers

Track: Wedding Ring From: Wedding Ring (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Skinny Dippers is the bedroom/fuzz pop solo project of New Yorker, Ryan Gross, who oozes, languid sun dappled melodies out of every blissful musical pore.

 

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