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Dedicated to the discussion and promotion of the multi-faceted musical genre of jangle/indie/guitar pop

Friday, 25 May 2018

EP Review - Four Stories by The Soft City (2012) (Calico Cat)

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Love the Pale Lights ? Wish you could find more music or a similar nature? Have searched high and low with fruitless fervour for somethin...

Album Review: The Astonishing Rise of Charlie Tipper by Arrest! Charlie Tipper (2018) (Breaking Down Recordings)

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Arrest! Charlie Tipper could be considered as something of jangle/indie-pop 'super group', having been formed from ex-members ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2018

EP Review - Town Runner by Make Sure (2017) (Self Released)

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I came to Make Sure in a somewhat perverse way. Seduced by the laconic hazy jangle-pop of the Summerooms 2 album, When the Summer is ...
Monday, 21 May 2018

Album Review - Up on the Sun by Meat Puppets (1985) (SST Records)

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Despite a vast back catalogue encompassing 14 albums over the 35 years+ since their self-titled debut in 1982 (which still remains an e...
Friday, 18 May 2018

Album Review - Broken Biscuits by Corin Ashley (2017) (Murray Hill Records)

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In the late 1980’s / early 1990’s I had a bit of a crush. Not a crush in the way that teenage kids get all besotted about similar sp...

Album Review - 2 Steps from the Middles Ages by Game Theory (1988) (Enigma Records)

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In the post-The Smiths final few years of the late 1980's, there was a uniformity to jangle-pop. Many American bands were joining th...
Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Album Review - It Ain't Me Babe by The Turtles (1965) (White Whale Records)

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In the mid 60's there were three prevailing trends: 1.  Early hit single? Yes? Release an album out as soon as humanly possible Ea...
Saturday, 12 May 2018

Album Review - The Catherines by The Catherines (2018) (Mondo Canape Records)

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A band with the name  The Catherines whose chosen album art is a black and white 1960's photograph of a quintessentially British look...
Thursday, 10 May 2018

Album Review - Out of Time by R.E.M (1991) (Warner Bros)

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Out of Time was the most commercially successful of all the R.E.M albums, despite being the one phase one album (i.e. their best year...
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Fake Compilations - The Marsh Marigold Showcase (1989-2018)

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Whilst all notable musical trendies in my early 1990's student days were either trying to desperately suppress their middle class pri...
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Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Album Review - Think I Need The Light by Holy Now (2018) (Lazy Octopus Records)

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I got married at the age of thirty. Prior to that I was a committed bachelor enjoying the simple pleasures of life such as regular gigs...
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Friday, 4 May 2018

Album Review: NE-HI by NE-HI (2014) (Manic Static)

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I listen to music a lot. I have a job that basically entails staring at a vast array of spread sheets and statistics then making decisio...
Thursday, 3 May 2018

Readers Choice Playlists (April 2018)

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April 2018 saw Janglepophub feature 133 tracks on our album reviews / #dailyjanglepop features on our various social media sites. These ...
Wednesday, 2 May 2018

EP Review - Beautyness - EP (2018) (Self Released)

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Beautyness are a four piece band from Minneapolis (Minnesota) consisting of front man and founder Alex Guderian , Dave Martini , Matt R...
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Album Review - This Town by Ta Toy Boy (2018) (Make Me Happy Records)

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I have become mates with a big Afrikaaner (a Dutch speaking white South African) who lives across the road from me. He is the exact pol...
Thursday, 26 April 2018

Album Review - Cake by Trashcan Sinatras (1990) (Go Discs!)

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'Stuff' is unavoidable. Fair enough you can enjoy stuff, but most of the time the very essence of stuff is that it tends to get...
Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Album Review - Around the House by The Chook Race (2016)

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Jangle-pop is increasingly changing. Perhaps some would say dying? Somehow the current movement within the genre is seeing numerous bands...
Saturday, 21 April 2018

EP Review - Kiwis by Kiwis (2018) (Snap! Clap! Records)

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Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a particular passion for the aesthetic that the numerous variants of Spanish pop h...
Friday, 20 April 2018

Compilation Review: London Weekend - Another Sunny Day (1992)

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On Friday nights I like to drink beer with my mates in our pub. Amid the debates about sport and the usual old jokes / stories that w...

Album Review - III by Foliage (2018) (Z Tapes)

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At the age of 20 I was at University. I was a tad immature. My primary concerns in life revolved around finding enough money to indulge...
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