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SEE: Tape Runs Out – ‘Hospital’: sheer indiepop brilliance on Austerity

AUSTERITY RECORDS down in Brighton is one of those grassroots labels with a nose for coming excellence – doing, to paraphrase the Creation compilation – god’s work. And boy oh…

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SEE: Swansea Sound – ‘I Sold My Soul On eBay’: railing against the royalty rate with pop concept

INDIEPOP with the most resonant of political points for an industry beleaguered by the pandemic and one in which anyway, let’s be frank, artists are being screwed all ends by…

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Track: The Weather Station – Atlantic

Canadian Tamara Lindeman has shared the new single/video from her project The Weather Station. The track ‘Atlantic’ is taken from her forthcoming album, ‘Ignorance’ due out February 5th via Fat…

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Track: Black Nash – Alligator

Fresh out of the military Jody Smith who goes under the name Black Nash has been adjusting to life out of the army and finding himself out of work and…

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Track: Boyracer – Harehills Christmas

With 2020 being somewhat of a return to form for northern Indie poppers, Boyracer the band have release a Christmas single – ‘Harehills Christmas’ via Emotional Response Records. Recalling the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Heavenly – ‘A Bout De Heavenly’: seminal sevens compiled in time for Santa

Rolling down through Heavenly's career through the prism of the single, you can see what a great band they were at that seemingly most humble, but powerful and demotic of formats, all packed full of the goodness of proper indiepop

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ALBUM REVIEW: Small Forward – ‘Small Forward’

Great easy listening on debut LP by LA trio

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EP REVIEW: Quiet Marauder – ‘Tiny Men Parts’: a critique of the male condition in bounce-along indiepop

Tiny Men Parts nails masculine creepiness and ineptitude with insouciance and tons of guitar pop like they used to make

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TRACK: Northern Portrait – At Attention

FOR followers of Matinee Recordings and contemporary indie-pop as a whole, this is exciting news. Anyone who has listened to Northern Portrait’s debut album, turning eleven this year (!), will…

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