The Death of Pop, that isn’t a statement you understand. It is the name of a London-based four piece who release their new single ‘Gardens’ on the Too Pure Singles Club on the 23rd of October. The record follows their 2014 EP Fifths Flexizine (Art is Hard) and their hot cake compilation Runts (Discos De Kirlan).
Recorded in a smoke-stained bedroom studio in a dilapidated seaside town on the south coast, ‘Gardens’ crystallises sunshine-pop melodies and laces them with a sparkling jangle underscored by spectral rhythms. It is an expert melding of the early rhythmic punch of R.E.M and the celestial melodic rush of early Teenage Fanclub as if they had been blasted in the eyes with Vitamin D, before the song expands into an extraordinary hyper-drive opus of mind bending mini psych-pop that rustles with the pastoral ghosts of Love.
In short ‘Gardens’ is a splendid, haunting slice of sound that weaves its way into the undergrowth of your mind and gives evidence quite to the contrary of The Death of Pop’s musical doomsday moniker, proving that guitar pop still has terrains left to explore.
