indiepop

Just got the Cults virus yesterday night thanks to our pal yvynyl, infectious retro twee pop goodness. MOAR!

Bark Bark Disco’s twee pop gets even sweeter when the video backdrop is the classic “Six Swedish Girls in a Boarding School“.

Swedish pop twins Taxi Taxi! have covered the folk song ‘Oh my darling Clementine’ on zither and accordion, backed by their dad on steel pedal. Video by Erik Wåhlström.

Just came home and not in the mood to write a lot, so enjoy th’s cute little nugget from Japenese singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru. Off 2007’s Exit, folktronica?

Squeezed out of our inbox in the last couple of weeks, this two part edition for Nov 09 has some great tunes. The first part is consisted mainly of indie / indiepop / folk stuff, which makes up about 80% of our inbox. Brown Bird’s new release on Peapod Records. Sticklips’ debut. LA Singer songwriter Yael Mayer and Tristeza.

Last time I listened to Victoria Bergsman aka Taken by Trees, she was making acoustic indie folk pop in her native Sweden, sounding not unlike her compatriot El Perro del Mar. East of Eden on the contrary sees a popified breed of Eastern music replacing generic indie folk, So what changed in two years?

“The Knot” is the second effort by Maryland duo Wye Oak. Heard them before on a split and thought that they were your run-of-the-mill indie/folk crossover. Yet “The Knot” has much in store both in the songwriting department as well as the sound.

Digging through our mailbox with the indie / pop / rock selection, with Signal Hill, Cast Spells, Giant Hand, Abernethy, Bombadil.