...Bowerbirds and Blue Things, the new album from Brighton's Jetstream Pony. And it's an excellent slab of, in their words, "schrammelig post punk and indie-pop". Depending on which online translation service you use, schrammelig seems to mean either scruffy, smudged or "strummy", all of which seem to fit. Go on, lend it your ears.
There's a video too, if visuals are your thing.
That's alright, isn't it? Honestly, most of what I listen to is old, but occasionally something new pops up that I can get behind, and this is one such. Although there's nothing new really is there, at least not in my tastes. Because this is where I throw in that Jetstream Pony's guitarist Shaun Charman was in the George Best-era iteration of The Wedding Present.
You’re spot on, young Martin, when you say there’s nothing new going on in there. And yet; I’ve got a feeling those vocals could grow on me. And the guitar work reminds me of the sound the Undertones used to get when they were still Derry boys.
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Indeed, I find it has grown on me really quickly. Remains to be seen whether the effect wears off.
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