Coral Collapse

Track: Spirit  From:  Symmetries (album) Label: Admirable Traits Records Out: Now

Jangle-pop, psyche-pop, dream-pop and the slightest of post-punk chunkiness, this New York based has components of all your favourite sounds, but weld them together in a superbly original manner.

Simplified Characters

Track: Sad Song  From:  Medley (album) Label: Self released Out: Now

With the rumbling, incessant rhythms of The Hidden Cameras, married to the fragile jangled riffs that are so reminiscent of the best of the indiest of the indie-folk/indie-rock genre, this duo are the coolest thing to come out Milwaukee for eons !

Sweet Lu

Track: 18  From:  18 (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Taking in the stadium indie rock vocals of The Killers and marrying it to the Post-punk early 90s jangle of The Cure, this is the sound of a Melbourne based act determined to present the city’s jangle-pop scene as something other than dolewave.

Hotplug

Track: Simple Things  From:  Simple Things (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Fans of the more melodic end of the lo-fi/bedroom/wonk pop scene may well have found their latest darlings in this Sacramento based act !

Nell Davies

Track: A Sad Kind Of Freedom  From:  A Sad Kind of Freedom (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Cornwall (UK) based, unsung indie chanteuse, who perfectly marries the lilting vibrancy of the Kirsty McColl aesthetic, to the jangly lo-fi magnetism of the Helen McCookeryBook vibe…a sound to appease indie connoisseurs.

Lunavela

Track: You know who you are, you know how I feel  From:  Imposter Syndrome (album) Label: Self released Out: Album out June 2022

The project of New Zealand-based singer/songwriter Steve Mathieson (formerly frontman of Collapsing Cities), Lunavela mix The Lightning Seeds lush melodies with a beautiful swirling dream-pop essence.

Jack Landness

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

Nestled adroitly between Tame Impala style neo-psyche and Boy Pablo sunshine surf, this debut single from Belmont University student, Jack Landness, resonates with glorious washed out jangle-pop.

Parralel

Track: Orchid From:  Parralel (EP) Label: Cherub Dream Records Out: Now

With the slightest of Mo Troper’s sense of fuzzy obtuse and the coolest sense of lo-fi  under-production, Ohio’s Sam Stansfield offers the most perfect sound to come out of a bedroom in 2022!

Sam Stansfield

Track: Extreme Falcon From:  Extreme Falcon (Album) Label: Self released Out: Now

With the slightest Mo Troper’s sense of fuzzy obtuse and the coolest sense of lo-fi  under-production, Ohio’s Sam Stansfield offers the most perfect sound to come out of a bedroom in 2022!

Evi Bosman

Track: Lose A Friend From:  Lose A Friend (single) Label: Self released Out: Now

Rotterdam-based, Evi Bosman, creates a sort of Phoebe Bridgers indie folk vibe, that can engross a fan of a jangly persuasions, with the sparcity of its melodic riffs that are never short of totally mesmerizing.

Thornbraver

Track: This Is What She Does To Me  From:  This Is What She Does To Me (single) Label: Self released Out: EP out May 2022

Recording project led by Boston based Pao Altamirano, who courses the jangly commerciality of the riff laden Jesse D’Kora sound, with the slight melancholy of Community Swimming Pool. A truly beautiful debut that resonates with potential.

Pharmacy Keys

Track: Mostly Blue  From:  Queen Maybe (album) Label: Birdface Records Out: Now

Cleveland, Ohio based quintet, that offer blue collar rock reminiscent of The Breeders, Spoon, Dinosaur Jr etc, with the slight, melancholic, understated jangly beauty of Elliott Smith thrown in to give it an extra lived in feel.

A. Michael Collins

Track: New Bells Ring  From:  New Bells Ring (single) Label: self released Out: Now

This Los Angeles based act takes the perfect 70s power-pop assurance of the Big Star aesthetic and augments it with the smoothness of Teenage Fanclub fuzz and vocals. Perfect power-pop, with a retro vibe.

Estrada

Track: Outside My Window  From:  Outside My Window (single) Label: self released Out: Now

Estrada takes the Business School sense of beautiful melancholy and wraps the earliest of Foliage style jangle-gaze beauty around the core. One of those tracks that completely engulfs the listener.

Love Chemical

Track: Had  From:  Light Rhythms for Counting Colors (album) Label: self released Out: Now

This Chicago based act find the perfect equilibrium between simpering jangled melodies, fuzz and definitive shoegaze inflections, to provide a stunning mix of competing sounds.