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Album Review: Absolute Losers – ‘In The Crowd’ : Power pop gets a real refresh from this tightly sprung Canadian trio.

  • October 2, 2025
  • John Parry
There’s the coolest Ian Dickson photo of The Jam live at the 100 Club circa 1977, Foxton caught jumping mid-air, Weller leaning into a power chord and Butler sticks raised…
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News: Swiss punk popsters Chin Chin’s brilliant ‘Stop Your Crying’ and The Siddeleys’ ‘Sunshine Thuggery’ EP are the latest indiepop nuggets in Optic Nerve’s singles club – and not forgetting Girls At Our Best …

  • June 18, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
OPTIC NERVE, the Preston label which is repressing indie 7″s with love and care in its singles series, version 3.0 of which is with us now, is poised to release…
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Track: New Duo ‘ Wanderland ‘ debut the heavenly ‘Soon’

  • June 17, 2021
  • Lara Eidi
I had the pleasure of reviewing songstress Natalie Wildgoose’s debut single “You”, here at Backseat Mafia. Needless to say I wasn’t sure what to expect from this up and coming…
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Album review: The Catenary Wires – ‘Birling Gap’: Amelia and Rob take a look at how we’re doing as an island in folk-rock and fuzzpop

  • June 14, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AMELIA FLETCHER and Rob Pursey have been making intelligent British indiepop together through more incarnations than your current, faithful scribe cares to shake a stick at, and thus that stick…
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News: The Nivens are the latest to get a loving and lovely Optic Nerve 7″ repress with ‘Yesterday’

  • May 10, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
OPTIC NERVE, the Preston label which is repressing indie 7″s with love and care in its singles series, version 3.0 of which is with us now, have just added a…
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See: TeenCanteen drop a video for the unearthed indiepop loveliness of ‘How We Met (Cherry Pie)’

  • April 10, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
TO MARK the fifth (!? that long already?) anniversary of their delish debut album, Say It All With A Kiss, Glasgow indiepop fizzbombers TeenCanteen have decided to unleash This Is…
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EP REVIEW: Blanketman’s ‘National Trust’ – A Northern state of mind

  • March 14, 2021
  • Lara Eidi
MANCHESTER indie-pop and post-punk outfit Blanketman have come a long way since their early years. A band that has created a hard-earned and well-deserved name for themselves after performing extensively…
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Track: The Catenary Wires – ‘Mirrorball’: Amelia and Rob twirl the indiepop glitter

  • February 22, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AMELIA FLETCHER and Rob Pursey: a marriage of minds and music who’ve kept those of us who love love loved the C86 guitar pop sound so well musically fed down…
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SEE: Emerson Snowe – ‘Frankenstein’: creepy visuals and Chills-like guitar pop

  • February 17, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
BRISBANE’S Jarrod M. Mahon disappears down the rabbit hole of indiepop under the dashing name of Emerson Snowe; and he’s just released a first taster of an EP, out later…
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EP REVIEW: Tape Runs Out – ‘Ghost Fruit’: hail Cambridge’s new intelligent indiepop geniuses

  • February 15, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
I really, genuinely think Tape Runs Out may one day take a place in the pantheon of the proper eccentric, intelligent British pop genii - they can turn their hands in any direction they wish, know how to arrange a tune so it makes you sit bolt upright, aren't afraid to push that tune in whichever stylistic direction it seems to demand; yet are also completely enthralled to the brilliance of a well-turned pop song. Brilliant, insouciant and intelligent
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