Thanks for joining us for Beat The Delete #0255 that showcases 30+ tracks from new and old musical friends alike. We hope you enjoy it.

Please remember with Spotify paying next to zippity zip for streams and then buying Bandcamp and removing the monthly Bandcamp Friday with pretty much immediate effect, any of your hard shekels that you can throw the way of these artistes are likely to be gratefully received and thrown back into their music…you reap what you sow!

All 70s guitar-pop shimmer drizzled with the essence of resigned melancholy and wistful nostalgia, this Heavy World single from Nik Brinkman is typical of the beautiful signature sound of his debut World Within album that is out now on Declared Records.

With two previous albums and an ep released, they have been compared to everything from Big Star to the The Soft Boys, and L.A.’s Paisley Underground to New Zealand’s 1980s-era Flying Nun Records guitar pop roster (such as The Chills, The Bats, etc.). Exploding Flowers explore some similar territory but expand to occupy their own space in that landscape. This Crowded Streets tracks is the second single from their forthcoming Watermelon/Peacock album that is out on Meritorio Records on 21 March 2025…adapted from Bandcamp release page.

The Bosses Are Stealing Yr Days! is one of a number of singles that has been released from the forthcoming All This Vast Over Production album by Stuart Pearce that is out on Safe Suburban Home Records and marries their inimitable juxtaposition of jangle rock and quirk post-punk modernity.

After several near perfect pastoral pop releases with our Subjangle label, this beautiful ‘Lost’ track is the initial single from 3.A.M Agains new The Psychic’s Letter that is being released on the wonderful The Cats Collects label on 21 March 2025 and hints at the facts that sometimes, just sometimes, perfection can be persistent!

Drifting Alvvays style spatial jangle-pop through haunting Holy Now style dream-pop, this Pixels single from New South Wales, Australia based Lucille Two splices melancholy with beauty.

What could more beautiful than the indie-pop emotionality crushed on a sea of battered fuzz and jangle-pop. What could be more precisely precious than this absolutely stunning You Bring Me Hope single by a Strange Pill outfit that thrives on the male female harmonies of Zahara Muñoz and Ben Hardy.

The Perfect English Weather are a husband and wife duo from Brighton, England, whose musical journey began in the late 1980s as part of the indie-chart irregulars The Popguns. Perched on a melodic precipice at the lovelorn edges of indie-dom, their “beautiful, slightly melancholic pop” has drawn comparisons to Everything But The Girl, The Sundays and more recently St Etienne. and this Caroline From Brunswick from their forthcoming Just Beyond The Lights album (out later in the year on Matinee Recordings) continues their legacy of brilliantly smooth and considered jangly indie-pop…adapted from the promo submission

Offering pristine beauty somewhere between Stephen’s Shore jangle-pop radiance and Hers style dream-pop that is so sweet that a my diabetes is playing up, this Evergreen single by Amsterdam based  Biatlón takes jangle-pop lucid to the next level.

Dream Boy is the brainchild of Orfeus and Faust, a duo located in Stockholm, Sweden. With a wide variety of inspirations the duo has set out to create their own blend of melodic yet challenging rock music. This The Stardancer single moves them firmly into the luscious, crooning jangle-pop realms that will appeal to fans of the Pale Lights.

Maria debuts it’s new five member line up on “My Valentine” with Momo Ortiz making her debut on vocals. Sweeps of organ give nods to Felt with jangling guitars paying homage to Sarah Records legends, The Field Mice. Maria is working on material for it’s debut album out later in 2025 via YAY! Records…from the promo submission.

On Jody & The Jerms latest Hooch and Happiness single Oxfords finest power-poppers take a break from abrasion and dive headlong into the stunning beauty of Kirsty MacColl style jangly indie-pop as Jody Jeger shows yet more ammunition in her vocal arsenal.

On her latest How Does It Feel single, Boston (UK) based Alice Kat continues to showcase her ability to augment her fuzz laden crunchy pop with a melodic emphasis that feels like it wins every battle to creep out from between the cracks of her intense guitars.

Self Help is the third single to be release from Dumb Things’ forthcoming album of the same name (out on 04 April 2025) and showcase their ability to marry lo-fi slacker-pop with the dulcet dolewave of an act such as Dick Diver. In the best traditions of languid, no pretence Australiana indie-pop !!!

If “1979” by The Smashing Pumpkins and “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure had a musical baby, it would probably sound nothing like this song. But how cool would that be?…from the bandcamp release bio.

Gum Parkers second “Hive” single from a The Brakes album that will be released via Repeating Cloud on 11 April 2025. crosses the divide between Dinosaur Jr wall of guitar abrasion and the melodic roughshod jangle-punk’ of the Ryan Allen and His Extra Arms aesthetic, in a single that exhilarates from the first to last note.

Dog Tale is the first single to be released from the album of the same name that Tugboat Captain will be releasing on 25 April 2025. Precise twee, infused with indie-pop and feint whiffs of psyche-pop this single promises the world from the latest of album from the erstwhile ‘Lords of DIY pop. ‘

Stars of Track and Field is another of the many bands that Seb Vos (The Fisherman and His Soul, Nah, Herr Wade) has graced and this Les Connaisseurs du Pop track is taken from the Episodes and Postcards (Complete Recordings 1998 – 2005) compilation album (out now on Bureau Platiruma!!!) that loving rekindles their brilliance of yesteryear.

“Indie pop with synths and broken guitars, some strangeness and dissonance, overwrought lyrics, proto-crooning and silliness” is the perfect description provided by the promo description in relation to Elucid Ether’s new The Last One’s Alive single Jangly pop-rock with an XTC edge.

Despite the deliberately flat vocals, the absolute stripped no-fi production and stripped back minimalism, this Once Y Once track from Ecuadorian, Christian Alcoser somehow beguiles with it’s mixture of tonto-pop and Adam Green sensibilities. Check out the full EUGIS album at Spotify.

Submerged in melodic jangle fuzz and the most fragile of shoegaze inflections this Crush single from Boy Problems new Pretend It’s Summer EP feels like The Gabys have suddenly found the prettier end of the Business of Dreams aesthetic.

The Color Society is a unique blend of influence and experimentation. Inspired by alternative, indie pop, psychedelia, and rock, young musicians Daniel Shrader, Shane Teague, Isaiah Sanchez, Nathan Shrader, and Tess Schoonhoven sought to craft a modern sound without sacrificing the strong melodies of classic artists of the past. The resulting sound is pop music at its core, with more “color.”…from the promo submission.

Tell It All is the lead single from Daniel Feinberg’s latest The Storm Rolled In album and will appeal to those who like their jangly pop rock submerged in the considered pop precision of Bandcamp pop legends such as Nik Brinkman, Grand Drifter and Armstrong.

Gallery is the debut single of Los Angeles based foursome, The Two Seasons who present themselves as act capable of filling every musical crevice between theatrical Killers style indie rock and Mac DeMarco smooth with jangle-pop riffs to die for. One to follow for certain.

Leicester based quartet, Güdness and their latest Self Help Cemetery single offers the perfect amalgamation of Mt.Misery style jangly classic / pop rock and a slight under-produced perfection that somehow aligns the retro-pop to lo-fi and bedroom-pop modernity.

Whirring, no-fi fuzz rock aligned to an 80s Fad Gadget style post-punk is the glorious aesthetic that this Red Sky or Childhood Nightmare 1 track from the recently released Beach Glass album by Basement, PA represents. A truly original blend of instantly recognizable sounds.

The Electorate are a Sydney based, indie bent pop trio made up of Eliot Fish, Nick Kennedy and Joshua Morris. Collectively they have played with the Apartments, Big Heavy Stuff, Atticus and others.

Their new single Peace Love and Kindness is out on Feb 12, and according to Backseat Mafia “The Electorate prove they have an ability to write what is in effect a rallying cry in dark times – an openly political statement calling for tolerance and love that rails against the current Zeitgeist. And to do it wrapped in such a crunchy delicious pop song is all the more impressive.”

Peace Love and Kindness is the second single from the upcoming LP By Design, and was produced by Wayne Connolly (Teskey Brothers, Underground Lovers, Hoodoo Gurus) and mastered by Jason Mitchell ( PJ Harvey, XTC. Dry Cleaning)…from the promo submission.

This is the opening, Down The Lane track to my (Paul Linton) newly released Sticky Beaks EP, the first under my full name. It has been a time of change and this particular song has evolved significantly over the last few years, starting out as a b-side to a particularly lofi single that I put out during lockdown. I gave away the last few copies at some local gigs but felt that it needed an update. Lately, Down the Lane has become a fixture of my live set and this recording reflects the fuller, more distorted sound that I have developed more recently. I always have fun playing this one and hope you will enjoy it too…artists promo submission.

Never veering to far away from the more lucid end of Swiss Portrait and the sheer beauty of Far Caspian, New Avenues always have the propensity to augment such an essence with the more melodic of pop modernity, as seen in their latest fine Honey Dew single.

Starlight is an independent musician who writes and produces alternative rock songs. With her grunge riffs and ethereal voice her songs give both spooky and fairy vibes. Starlight’s works are often drizzled in languid jangly beauty as displayed in this beautiful Golden Ray single.

With her massive talent eventually breaking free from its largely bedroom-pop, lo-fi early machination Maria DeHart and her Myriads project has benefitted from a studio production that has enabled her to branch out into more intense sounds. This Spider single showcases her ability to marry her lo-fi leanings and allure to the most bombastic of indie-pop.

One of the more original sounds at present, this The Siren single by MatAre is typical of an aesthetic that twists rounded new wave theatricality through post-punk and jangle-gaze machinations. This is an artiste that has consistently and increasingly grabbed my attention over the last year.

Cruel is the b-side to the Sleepyhead single that was released by Western Australia’s Alastair Leonard in early February and offers the sweetness of The Photocopies style C86 retro-pop married to the slightest of The Bolton’s-esque post-punk subtleties.

“Art House” is the second single from the upcoming debut album by Tom Henry. Produced by and featuring contributions from Kai Slater of Sharp Pins, and mixed & mastered by Jonny Bell (Tijuana Panthers, Young Guv, Hanni El Khatib), the song captures the thrill of a midnight movie with Farfisa organ and garage rock guitars. Tom and his band have been touring the West Coast in support of the release and the label will be undertaking a worldwide publicity campaign to promote. Thanks for listening!…from the promo submission.