Category: jangle pop
Starling Electric – Black Ghost/Black Girl
As much as it sounds like it, the persons responsible for this track have nothing whatsoever to do with Teenage Fanclub (or Cosmic Rough Rides for that matter). No offshoot, no Glaswegian heritage, nothing. Instead it is a creation of […]
The Twin Atlas – Double Shot
It’s over in half the time it takes a 3-minute wonder to work its magic but somehow this effort from the Twin Atlas has charmed. Sadly it looks like the duo behind the song are no more having thrown in […]
Alba Lua – When I’m Roaming Free
Seem to have hit a rich seam of jangle pop numbers of late but it’s not a situation we’re ever likely to complain about. Tonight’s offering comes from a French band (circa Bordeaux) that sing in English (a novelty in […]
Cosmic Rough Riders – The Loser
Don’t be fooled by the summery jangle supplied by this classic from the turn of the century for it harbours dark thoughts in the lyric sheet. But then, if like me you are destined to swat such dark scenarios to […]
The Black Angels – I’d Rather Be Lonely
What a cute line ‘if this is love, then I’d rather be lonely’, so nifty I am a tad surprised no one has thought of it up to now. To make matters even more pleasant the Black Angels chose to […]
Tiger Waves – Fields
Yeah I know the year has only begun but I’d be somewhat alarmed if ‘Fields’ didn’t make its way to near the top of our fave songs of 2013. With the insouciance of an Ambulance LTD number or the charm […]
Roofwalkers – They Think They Own The Place
Just back from a visit to the infrequently updated webspace belonging to Washington band the Roofwalkers and it appears as if something might be happening on the recording front. Good news for those on a mission to find the perfect […]
No – There’s A Glow
L.A.’s No make the sort of sound you’d expect from a bunch of lads with skinny legs and cool haircuts. The sort of sound that is unlikely to come from a North Sea crab boat deckhand or an office worker […]
Fou – Colour Me In
‘Colour Me In’ is the sort of staple that has fuelled this blog over the years. Understated, almost demoesque in its execution, but exactly wondrous by nature. And how could anyone resist a song about crayons and sketch pens when […]
The Pernice Brothers – Saddest Quo
If you like to bask in a haze of permanent Teenage Fanclubism then you are much like myself. A gilded chord here, a heavenly harmony there and put together with the precision of an eye for detail of a pre-industrial […]
Suburban Living – I Don’t Fit In
There are so many songs of this ilk sloshing around the internet it tends to blind one from their inherent charm. That might be all well and good if this type of stuff was reinventing the wheel but a charging […]
Photo Ops – Someplace
Nashville’s Terry Price has been around the block once or twice (with his old band Oblio) and has suffered quite a few slings and arrows lately. Like most people he struggled on but instead of hiding behind a cloak of […]