As Long As I Have You is the lovely new single from Sweden’s Alpaca Sports following on from last years excellent releases. They are pretty good live too. We put them on at Sleeping Today in November last year for their first ever British show and it was of my favourite performances of 2012. No hint of bias there either I hasten to add! Continue reading Alpaca Sports – As Long As I Have You
Literature have released a new single earlier this month. They sound a bit like Voxtrot (whatever happened to them?) combined with a 1980’s British indie sound. You can pick up a physical copy from Square Of Opposition Records. Last years Arab Spring album is one of my most favourite albums I have downloaded from Bandcamp to date. It’s pretty impressive stuff if indiepop shakes your thang! Homepage Continue reading Literature – Tie Dye/Apples
I found the flip sides (can you have that on a digital single?) to be much more interesting than the main single itself specifically the track Minor Detail. There is more than enough here to warrant either streaming or picking up the album in due course. Homepage Continue reading Dumb Talk – Stay
An enjoyable and noisy indiepop romp via the flexi disc release. No idea where they are from but I am guessing Peru maybe seeing as they are signed to Plastilina Records. You can contact them about ordering the release via their bandcamp page as it is not yet available digitally (soon pretty please). Homepage Continue reading Eva & John – Cesar Gutierrez
For one reason or another I didn’t listen to that much music (well recent stuff anyway) in 2012 and one band I have been meaning to catch up on was Edinburgh’s The Spook School. Glad I did as I think their tunes are pretty good taking the indiepop template and making it so much better. They had three releases so far and I prefer the two earlier ones simply for the fact that they contain the bands two best tracks – well to these ears anyway – and to be honest I prefer the female vocals when compared to the … Continue reading The Spook School
Pop Singles début album All Gone is 1980’s influenced indiepop taking influences from Australian, British and American bands of that era. The album was released on Vacant Valley and visit that label to find out how to pick up a physical copy in a range of formats. Or pick it up free digitally from Bandcamp. Continue reading Pop Singles – All Gone
I have finally got around to listening to the widely raved about Martha whose name was slightly off-putting, generating visions of one of those ukulele driven bands that seem to be all the rage these days. Thankfully their sound is far removed from that being pretty lively punky power pop. Homepage Continue reading Martha – Martha
The new single from The History Of Apple Pie is a taster to their début longer player which will be released at the end of the month on Marshall Teller Records. See You is only available digitally from the likes of i-tunes and 7 digital. The album, Out Of View, can be pre-ordered from Rough Trade. Continue reading The History Of Apple Pie – See You
Danish indiepoppers Northern Portrait release their first single for over two years on 22nd January. It’s a four track affair entitled the Pretty Decent Swimmers EP and is available as a blue 10″ vinyl EP (limited to a 1000 copies) or in digital formats. Get it from Matinee Recordings. Continue reading Northern Portrait – Pretty Decent Swimmers EP
Possible single of the year for me. Pick it up on 7″ vinyl from Beautiful Strange. Website Continue reading Big Wave – Only You
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