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based trio Pearls may have just provided the perfect taste of '70s inspired alt-pop with their new release Pretend You’re Mine . "A lustful undercurrent leaves one with ... Mono (The Valory Music Co/Universal) The Seven Ups – The Seven Ups (Independent) THEESatisfaction – EarthEE (Sub Pop/Inertia) Tom Lark – Tom Lark (Island/Universal

Girl (Sony) Rolling Blackouts – Clean Slate (triplejunearthed.com) Sleater–Kinney – No Cities To Love (Sub Pop) Vallis Alps – Young (triplejunearthed.com

take this Fight Club-era Jared Leto lookalikes vocals with triggered synths and subs, occasional pitch-shifted vocals, decent but undeniably generic percussive loops,  ‘ Leave Your Love ... little forced and cliche, also doesn't help it's a rather uninspired pop track either. Tears On The Runway Pt. 1’ is a reference to the Issues song, ‘ Tears

style, all members sporting fancy suits for the occasion - even the drummer. Their passionate pop with resonating synth had everyone moving, and you were bound to have classics like ... were reading words off cue cards and the grimy beats felt uninspired, overwrought with sub bass. To top it off, the rappers wished the crowd a great

sick of his Newmnanesque storytelling yet. ( I Love You, Honeybear , Feb via Sub Pop) Cancer Bats The hardcore Canadians promise their fifth studio album is “a serious banger”. First taste

audience old-school stylee with a sound that manages to make synth-driven pop a bit of muscle and swing. If You Wanna Stay (Chugg/MGM) is commercial, sure – but also ... promotional video for the idiosyncratically titled Chateau Lobby #4 (In C For Two Virgins) (Sub Pop) sidelined for budget considerations – internet-savvy cat-wranglers being an expensive breed, apparently

really happy thing because we’d been doing a lot of research and realised Sub Pop was our favourite" Such is the way these days for the duo, who split ... helping on the album. It wasn’t until after it was complete that Sub Pop asked for their hand. “We were really happy to sign with Sub Pop because

loose ends in Australia to tie up, and after a proposed tour supporting Iggy Pop was cancelled in November (Birdman did their own tour of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide instead ... critic David Fricke summed it up nicely in his liner notes to the 2001 Sub Pop compilation The Essential Radio Birdman; “…when they walked away from it all in June