✨Indie Pop Jangle & Twee: Pop Perfect Monthly✨

GIRLS IN THE GARAGE: 1970-Today - 2

It's our very first episode! Today we're talking about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. If you haven't read it, skip todays episode and come back when you're finished. Because #SpoilerAlert, we're spilling the beans on all of Evelyn's secrets.

Let's just say we have some mixed feelings about this one. Keep listening until the end to find out which book we're reading next so you can finish it before our next book review on 11/4.

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01. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | We're Just Not... Sure?

Quixotic

Need One

Oakland, CA mainstays Lunchbox are back with Pop and Circumstance, an explosive new album draws on influences from both sides of the Atlantic. Besides its obvious debt to the hard end of the 1970s UK mod-revival and the jangle of 1980s British indiepop, the record proclaims Lunchbox’s continued allegiance to the 1960s/70s Southern California pop sensibility and love for the classic AM radio pop single.

Over the course of their almost thirty year career Lunchbox have always impressed with their ability to mine gold from the ore of pop history, and this terrific new record shows them at their best. From the bubblegum mod pop of "Dinner for Two" to the junkshop soul of "Love for Free," the Who-adjacent power pop of "Summer’s Calling" to the horn-driven grooves of "Is this Real?," "Pop and Circumstance" transposes Lunchbox’s unique blend of influences into a transcendent new key.

Pop And Circumstance

Pop and Circumstance

Lunchbox - This World

Chicago's Loren Vanderbilt began Humdrum as an escape early in the pandemic — a band built around his favorite elements of dream-pop, indiepop, shoegaze, and new wave. On his debut album, "Every Heaven," Loren establishes himself as a talented songwriter and master of melody across 10 tracks brimming with jangly guitars and lovelorn vocals, hearkening back to the chime of IRS-era R.E.M., Felt, The Railway Children, New Order, and 90's staples like Ride, Pale Saints and Slowdive.

Every Heaven

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Humdrum "See Through You"

Following on from their excellent, jangle-tastic 2021 self-titled debut, Chime School's new album "The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel" is as stellar as we could have hoped for — deeper, richer and evolved in every way. While still joyfully packed with janglepop gems, "Paisley Hotel" takes a turn toward the winsome melancholy of groups like East Village, The Go-Betweens, and The Loft, and represents a leap forward in production, composition and arrangement.

The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel

Chime School - Wandering Song

Ruby

Lock You Out

A mix dedicated to my occasional bouts of insomnia that DOESN'T INCLUDE THE TRACK 'Insomnia' (totally missed a trick there).

It’s an energetic, jacked up party starter of a mix that zips along at 127 BPM

There's a YouTube visualiser for it here: https://youtu.be/ZbEmDZNNTRw

Ruby

Yea-Ming and The Rumours