Blog: SoundsXP

The three songs from the San Francisco band (a partnership of Glenn Donaldson and Josh Alper) sounds like some of the most perfect pop out of New Zealand, their lo-fi bedroom pop conjuring up visions of the Chills and the Clean. ‘Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart’ has simple arrangements – erratically jangling guitars and basic drum machine patterns – and is roughly recorded but the rock’n’roll spirit radiates. ‘You Don’t Want to Live Like That’ is sketchy and unfinished but has great psych-pop effects and the single generally is heartstoppingly simple and affecting indiepop.