THE DEATH OF POP • www.instagram.com/thedeathofpop

The Death of Pop’s new album ‘FLOG’ is very much a sonic celebration of the group’s eleven year journey together, a combination of taking their tried and tested sound and moving it forward. Conceptually, the album is acknowledging the ephemeral nature of music making in 2024. George’s album art is a playful take on the idiom ‘Flogging a dead horse’ (a waste of time). The seventh track on the album ‘Withering’ was discovered in a box of cassettes when Angus was moving house; the intro on the recording is the original 4-track demo which then makes way to a recently recorded effort.

Brothers Angus James and Oliver James formed The Death Of Pop on the South-Coast of England in 2013. Their home-produced songs reflected the dismal summers and repulsive sea breeze of a forgotten seaside wonderland; recreating these thoughts through a broken mirror of 90s shoegaze, 80s new wave, paisley underground and sunshine pop. Since their formation, the band have worked with Art is Hard Records, Too Pure, Hidden Bay and Discos De Kirlian. Nine years on, and with a prolific output of albums, compilation and EPs, the band continue to self-produce, allowing them the luxury of time and experimentation. The Death of Pop inhabit somewhere between contemporary and nostalgia, still maintaining their original ethos of sonic exploration in forward-thinking melodic pop songwriting.

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HEALEES • www.instagram.com/healees_band

Healees was formed in Paris by American expat Bryan Quinn and Breton transplant Renaud Chaure in 2016. Joined by Hillevi Robertsson on bass and Arthur Chen on drums, the four-nationality 4-piece blend shoegaze, new wave, noise and power pop into a style as mesmerizing as it is catchy. A set of demos in 2020 led to a self-titled maxi-EP on Toulouse’s Hidden Bay Records in 2022, with a full-length LP due out in 2024.

Healees est un quatuor américano-européen de noise-pop/shoegaze basé à Paris. Leur musique mélange un savant dosage de mélodies pop new wave, d’harmonies vocales subtiles et d’accords vaporeux et incisifs. Un recueil de démos, édité sur Bandcamp en 2020, a donné suite à la sortie d’un maxi EP en 2022 sur le label toulousain Hidden Bay Records. Le groupe travaille actuellement sur leur premier album.
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