Thank you for joining us for Beat the Delete 0229. We bring you all the submissions that have not suffered the punitive hammering of my faded delete button as I wield my delete index figure with an impunity that only the tyrannical madmen of yore could really begin to perceive.

However, the following have all tickled my jangle receptors in some way.

“Leave If You Want To” — lead single off The Meeks sophomore LP People Don’t Talk — marks the band’s first foray into a professional studio. Recorded at Figure 8 with engineer Nate Mendelsohn (Frankie Cosmos, Katie Von Schleicher, Market), “Leave If You Want To” aims to draw a line from classic indie pop (Tender Trap, The Field Mice) through 90s dreampop (Ride, Lush) and into conversation with Brooklyn’s jangle vanguard (Trinket, Juicer): all while maintaining the bristling edge of The Meeks’ live set….from the promo submission.

With previously released ‘I Am’ as the opening track, the song is given a new life through its place on ‘23.’ Its lyrics feel like a love letter and omen to the project: “She’s an open book / I am open-ended.” Through vulnerable lyrics, and a reserved yet identifiable sound, the album welcomes an audience….Rad full review at Unheard Gems.

On Twelve Songs (check out album released on Fountain Inc), you’ll find “Empty Vacant Pure Divine”. This single sounds like it could be on a Big Thief or even a Beatles record. The background harmonies add so much dimension to the track, making the listener feel like they’re in a room full of singers jamming along to the instrumentation. You can hear the combination of folk, indie, and blues come to life in this song. This could be the perfect beach day song or the soundtrack to your getaway in the mountains- the range is intoxicating and inviting…read full review at Melodic Magazine

Leeds based Michael B. Thomas is the keyboardist for Eades, and his solo Test Tube Baby single sees him juxtapose Grandaddys’ smooth laconic with an aesthetic that is undercut by Elliot Smith-style lo-fi melancholy. This will undoubtedly appeal to fans of acts such as Glom and Phantom Youth.

What can you tell us about your new single Soothing Nights?

yea, the single Soothing Nights is what we call a false ballad and one of our best songs as it feels right now. I think it’s about a falling feather, or a thought flying out over the sea, or life on earth and the long journey. Or I don’t know…you decide what you think of it. But no matter what, it is epic….read the full interview at  Reyt Good Magazine.

Marrying the jangly indie rock of Ducks Unlimited to the vocal sweetness and harmonies of Paul Heaton / The Housemartins, this Battery Park Wallflower track is typical brilliance from their Watching the People Blur album that was released on April 9, 2024.

Before the band’s name has you running to the hills with memories or visions of loads of teens hanging around shopping centers dressed as the walking dead with their Robert Smith haircuts touching the sky (boys) and the sluttiest of Victorian prostitutes (girls), then worry not, this Two Step single by Mall Goth out of Paintbox Records is the perfect jangly C86 mix of The Shops Assistants incessance and Vivian Girls ‘indie indifference’ that makes this act gloriously cool in all the right places!

Tobasco Boy twists the jangly dream-pop of Swiss Portrait through an Alex G / Andy Shauf sense of spatial washed out laconic to end up somehwere near the beauty of the Beach Vacation aesthetic on this stunning self released single.

Mirroring the Broadcast propensity for having different nuances of indie-pop tumble over each over and then marrying it with a subtle psyche-pop drizzled Krautrock and retro production, this superb Worst Things First single from Little Miss Echo’s forthcoming self-titled album (out on 07 June 2024) signals the possibilities of great things from this Boston, Massachusetts based foursome.

North Carolina-based band Wine Pride share their latest release, ‘1201 AM’. The dreamy single, set to drop on April 11th via Crafting Room Recordings, serves as an enticing preview of their forthcoming EP, Lost Years.

Following the success of their debut album, Wine Pride has evolved their sound, delving deeper into the emotive core of their music. With intricate guitar melodies, melodic basslines, and precise drumming, ‘1201 AM’ weaves a rhythmic tapestry that envelops listeners in its atmospheric haze…Read full review at Still Listening Magazine.

Crushed less than neatly between the jangly casiotone twee-pop of Au Revoir Simone and the glitchy, under-produced quirks of the Young Marble Giants Norway’s Wibes offer brilliance and perfect originality on this superb uendelig flow.

Following the release of their wickedly dry debut EP ‘Why Is Being Successful So Hard’, Eora/Sydney quintet Safety First return with another intertwining jangle-pop gem in new single ‘That’s What You’re Like’.

Delivered in lead singer Lexi Green’s signature conversational style, ‘That’s What You’re Like’ is an observant dissection of shared city living, complete with scathing one liners and an evolving dissatisfaction for their surrounding environment.

“‘That’s What You’re Like’ tells a story of a failing sharehouse in the Inner West of Sydney complete with a former friendship dying to a thousand minor grievances and a toxic boyfriend who is always around but never pays rent,” explains Lexi…from the promo submission.

“Laundry Mountain”, the new single by Boston based quintet Sinnet, started as something I would play around the house hanging with my family, making light of the laundry and dishes accumulating. I didn’t really think about it too much, it was just something silly to get a rise out of my kids. At some point I realized my son was singing it to himself while he was playing. Hmmm, I thought: “maybe there is something here.” I guess basically what I’m saying is my four year old is my producer. …adapted from from the promo submission.

Endless Day emerges as the latest track from the forthcoming album by the dreampop project, Darksoft. Notably mesmerizing, the song encapsulates ethereal melodies and evokes a profoundly atmospheric tone.

The track brings forth a spectrum of emotions, from longing to hope, mingled with a recognition of life’s unpredictability and the prospect of fresh beginnings. Delving into concepts of time, and the innate human desire for connection and constancy, the track expresses these themes seamlessly within its dreamy, resonant dreampop sound.

Endless Day is released on Spirit Goth Records….see full review at Darkeninheart.com.

Sliding Alvvays style languid jangle through the prettiest of modern day chanteuse pop this Shrooms single out of Better Company Records is the first new music in over two years from Boston based quintet Coral Moons and although I cannot find anything on the net suggesting that thy might be about to release something more substantial (EP / album), we can but hope!

Marrying the tight, fractious, jangled riffs of the mid-era The Cure post-punk sound with the Torrey, Darksoft, and Community Swimming Pool dream-pop textures, Joey Biondi’s If I Died Young is the sort of track that offers beauty in every hook and melody.

“Margaret” explores entitlement through nostalgia-coated Jangle Pop, depicting a lost protagonist grappling with a life of excess. While she continues to seek contentment in immediate gratification, the refrain suggests that a fulfilling existence may require some genuine sacrifice. Sonically, it blends 60’s Country Rock and Psychedelia with modern production – recorded live to emphasize LOON’s raw energy and musical chops…from the promo submission.

“Message on the Moon” is an album about metamorphosis in all its forms–personal and global, within our psyche or out in nature. Richly-layered guitar tracks, which are the signature sound of Penelope’s Thrill, carry the listener on a joyful ride across songs that sometimes reach for ecstasy and sometimes delve into darkness.
“Message on the Moon” is the second Penelope’s Thrill album, coming on the heels of the band’s debut album, “Twilight on Tunnel Road,” which won the Alternative Album of the Year award from Madison Area Music Association in Wisconsin.,…from the Bandcamp release bio for the album “Message on the Moon”

London based RAINSONG brings us their latest with “Coma Baby.” Chock full of effects for that reliable shoegaze tone, RAINSONG plays around with faraway/breathless sounding lyrics with a touch of the melancholia. This honestly sounds how I think a new Goo Goo Dolls could sound if they made an album with My Bloody Valentine for some random reason.

That isn’t to say this sounds like it’s pulled from the 90’s, far from it: everything sounds fresh and new, even if there’s a strong The Cure influence here. There was a tone or two that put that idea in my head, along with the lead singer’s voice sounding vaguely reminiscent of the Goos’ John Rzeznik….read full review at Buffablog.

Danielle Sines, Adele Nicholas and Rachael Farinella of Impulsive Hearts make a run to the border with me, as we do an interview outside the Taco Bell in Avondale.

As the third full-length, “Fit 4 the Apocalypse,” is about to be released (with a release show at Liar’s Club on 4/4/24), we talked about:
*The band’s evolution across the three albums
*The joys of Taco Bell, and the chain’s commitment and loyalty to Mountain Dew products.
*The occasionally-biting details behind some of the lyrics on the new album.
*The Motown influence on Impulsive Hearts.
*The unlikely story of how Rachael joined the band….listen to the full interview at carconcarne.com