EP Review – Amethyst by Apollo Ghosts (2024) (You’ve Changed Records)
There is something so very familiar about the Apollo Ghosts aesthetic that it is just impossible not to be drawn into a jangly sound that forever will have at least one part of your body involuntarily responding to their constant sense of earworm.
This Amethyst EP is a’surprise digital release’ to coincide with a forthcoming Japanese tour that takes in various nuances of the jangle pop genre, with tracks best represented by Ripping Invasives, Fake Nurse, and Rave Heaven all following a flat-stringed Pavement/Yo La Tengo sense of jangle whilst simultaneously augmenting it with the Melbourne dolewave slacker aura that just fits perfectly with their core dulcet.
In comparison to the above, Strawberry Moon, Faded Neil Young Shirt, and the closing brilliance of No One Knows Your Mind all take on a shambolic jangle rock that teeters just on the right side of Tough Age, Ryan Allen, and his Extra Arms jangle-punk mania.
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