The jangle-pop genre, and especially those acts that pop up with huge swathes of originality from between the cracks of the genre’s possibilities, tends to evolve every couple of years or so, and if 2022 and 2023 saw the San Francisco scene and its beautifully addled lo-fi replace the previous Melbourne dolewave scene for ascendancy, then 2024 will ultimately see glorious jangly post-punk releases by acts such as Cola, Sculpture Club, Kelly Stoltz, Neutrals, Oh Boland, and Oort Clod take the genre back to the sound of the mid-to-late 1980’s when post-punk was morphing into jangle.

My Best Unbeaten Brother, and their superb debut Pessimistic Pizza EP  looks set to become the latest post-punk edged jangle act that deserves to take their place at the same table as the abovementioned giants with Time On Our Hands, Spider Man, lead single Blues Fatigue, and The Art Of Letting Go, dancing the semi-spoken vocals of the Lewsberg aesthetic casually through dulcet jangled riffs that are akin to the Josef K sound.

The sound becomes more intense on the remainder of the release as A Song About Double-Crossing A Friend, Close-Up Magic and It’s Not Embarrassing To Care About Stuff incorporate the same laconic vocal delivery against the spiky, agitated riffs that made The Fire Engines 1980’s Postcard Records legends as the tight angularity simply heaves with the best kind of faux jangle.

Difference has never sounded so vital and these days jangly post-punk acts like My Best Unbeaten Brother are providing it with both volume and aplomb.

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