Assistant

Our Certain Memories LP is a quiet & contradictory indiepop oyster, which combines melancholy songs about my mum’s dementia with ringing celebrations of other turned corners. I think it’s a pretty album & there are still 20 CDs available. They’re here: assistant.bandcamp.com/album/certai...

I got my copy today of the debut from The Lost Guests featuring my Assistant bandmate Jonathan ! A lovely thing. yyzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endles...

Hello and welcome to A-POP!, your twice-weekly round-up of all the best new brilliant sounds that made me go YIP! YOW! noiseboxradio.com

Thanks to @lostguests.bsky.social for this lovely thing of beauty. @yyzrecords.bsky.social

Lovely review of the new EP by @powerfulpierre.bsky.social here!

"So pure an approach to songwriting that it's quite different from anything else around at the moment" Really v happy to have got such a nice review for my Lost Guests side-project from the ace @popintherealworld.bsky.social - a gloriously well written & passionate music-blog (thank god it exists).

7. The Danphes - Spring/Summer E.P Always nice to have something arrived fully formed: sensitive indiepop melodicism from @thedanphes.bsky.social who clatter through a pair of songs & soar through two others. 'Everyone I Know Is Falling Out Of Love' is my pick. You can grab it on a tape for a fiver

Perhaps it's time for a new mid-October onwards thread of indiepop / post punk / art pop / weird jazz recommendations? Shall we give it a try? Finds below ⬇️

Paradise for me is sitting in bed with a coffee idly watching a 1990 Blue Aeroplanes show while my kids congregate with breakfast items. This show from Köln is absolute heaven youtu.be/O13pWHe1XfI?...

I wrote a thing about choosing an allotment! intheaprilsun.substack.com/p/allotment-...

Very small beer, I know, but if you buy your CD of @lostguests.bsky.social's ENDLESSLY ON THE WAY this morning (should you happen to want one) you'll find your name pops up on the folded insert, alongside other early purchasers! If you don't, you won't! 12 copies left at the mo!

I wrote a thing about choosing an allotment! intheaprilsun.substack.com/p/allotment-...

6. Pieuvre - Away from Human Behaviour Angular, witty, impertinent post-punk from Berlin. A locked-in rhythm section/great vocals augmented by some lovely blasts of trumpet on the closer. It's about the "alienation of work life, the vacuum of consumerism and what makes us different from a plant".

Today is our one month allotment anniversary! Having a delightful weekend / running battle with stinging nettles (not winning).

Added a few new things to this list this morning! Recent pop which is uniformly great

Good to see a nice review of @powerfulpierre.bsky.social's excellent new mini-LP, which is a total stunner! See below

5. Harrasment - Natural Feelings (2026) If you like brittle, angular/twee indie pop, this slightly arch LP has lots of naive post-p charm. A bunch of NYC artist/improv types, some playful lyrics - "I am not a criminal, I just want my minerals" - lots of fun to be had.

This thread has made me so happy. If you don't have 'All We Ever Did Was Try' by @therosslyns.bsky.social yet, grab a copy and then you'll enjoy this thread the way I do. A priceless perfect little band.

Just utterly insanely in love with this record! winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/sketch...

I have to concur with Jonathan's @assistant.bandcamp.com recent comments. This is indeed a wonderful collection of songs from Peter Simmons @powerfulpierre.bsky.social. His best yet, and that's saying something. There's a lot of good tunes to choose from. harbour1.bandcamp.com/album/someti...

You can NOW listen to the full debut by the Lost Guests on our BC page, and a sunny/joyful/melancholy beauty it is too (and in case you didn’t know, it’s the new project from Jonathan @assistant.bandcamp.com w Alistair James, so it being great is no surprise) yyzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endles...

LOST GUESTS ENDLESSLY ON THE WAY is out today www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Bg...

The Lost Guests CDs will be mailed out in the next few days! You can hear the whole album here! We are go! V v happy to release YYZ4 courtesy of the great @yyzrecords.bsky.social yyzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endles...

Thank you @louderthanwar.bsky.social and @iainkey.bsky.social for including The Lost Guests in tomorrow’s brilliant Editor’s Choice Show 💜🙏

2. The Tribulations - The Yearning For A new band comprising Colin Tailor and Enzo Gentzel from Tallahassee, FL; lots of Lee & Nancy vibes from this intimate, mournful slice of indiepop/americana. A bit of Beat Happening and The Girl With The Replaceable Head too, if that helps! Well worth a listen

Listen today 3-5pmEDT 14 Oct on whupfm.org for great new music and classics! New Gentle Hen, strongboi, Shannon Lay, the Lost Guests, Kate Bollinger, Fran Carlyon, Angine de Poitrine, Perfume Genius, Ziemba, & Echo & the Bunnymen. Old Beach House, Nick Drake, & Billy Joel. #MidweekMusings #WHUP

3. 150 Tisses - Your New Favourite Record Over the last few years this lot have released just four beautiful songs & now they've been winningly collected together. A Norwegian/German virtual pop group featuring the brill Seb Voss, this is jazzy and jangly in equal measure. Beautifully arranged too.

A #BandcampFriday tip: the new LP by @redcavalry.bsky.social is out today and it's delightful. Such a ton of alternately tender and ardent songs, lovely melodies and celery-stick crisp arpeggiated riffs. And it's on @subjangle.bsky.social, the world's best record label! Ace!

Such a gorgeous review for a gorgeous record. There are still copies of the CD left on our Bandcamp page with the full release coming soon. yyzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endles...

And it’s only one Canadian dollar! An essential buy if you like Nap Eyes as much as I do.

Just utterly insanely in love with this record! winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/sketch...

Not sure I remember this lot, but The Charms have reissued their jangly, poppy 1990 debut, Happen, which sounds a bit like everything did in 1990 - James, The Charlatans, REM etc. Great stuff!

"So pure an approach to songwriting that it's quite different from anything else around at the moment" Really v happy to have got such a nice review for my Lost Guests side-project from the ace @popintherealworld.bsky.social - a gloriously well written & passionate music-blog (thank god it exists).

Gobsmacked & delighted by this lovely review from @popintherealworld.bsky.social! Thanks so much Chris! “So rich in its surroundings and memories that you half expect Proust to turn up with a box of madeleines”.

Three absolutely lovely songs from Sister Bardot here, but I love 'Some Kind of Blue' most; a kind of hymn to discovery & musical immersion that glides between earthly & celestial planes. The escalating riff and collapse after “the woman who fell to earth” is a delight! Cor!

I know well that Spotify is not everyone's cup of tea, but if anyone would like to share and/or click this Spotify link, it would help @lostguests.bsky.social/me when Endlessly On The Way lands on evil streaming platforms later this month! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

I know well that Spotify is not everyone's cup of tea, but if anyone would like to share and/or click this Spotify link, it would help @lostguests.bsky.social/me when Endlessly On The Way lands on evil streaming platforms later this month! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

Picked this up on a whim today & have really enjoyed it; Peter Schrank is a Swiss political cartoonist and a songwriter. And this is a delicate, beautifully warm folk-pop LP which across it's 6 tracks reminds me of Nick Lowe, late Bob, Kevin Ayers. It even goes a bit bossa-nova AOR in the middle.

Anyone else unable to ignore the similarity between 'Falling Through My Hands' on that ropey new Beck LP and Dinosaur's Jr's 'Get Me'? My wife keeps playing the former and I keep running through thinking she's playing the latter!

Another bucolic folk Bandcamp find; I love this, by Ady Johnson - Under Gainsborough Skies is a gorgeous sounding, faintly groovy 70s folk concoction with a ton of absolutely lovely melodies. For fans of John Martyn, Nick Drake and at times, the Canterbury crowd. Delightful stuff.