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Sub Versus sees Akron/Family performing as pop musicians doing their best no wave interpretation. It's a record full of disparate tones and textures and challenges you in the same

Status and Sub Focus, establishing themselves as credible newcomers with Space Time / Take The Stairs . The Radio 1 faves have since enjoyed a cult pop video with Get By . They

latest album finds her trying to split the difference between electronica and classic pop songwriting. She had a chat to us about how one makes a comeback like this work ... Courts  – Light Up Gold (Create/Control) Wire – Change Becomes Us (Popfrenzy) Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop/Inertia) Dungeonesse – Dungeonesse (Secretly Canadian/Inertia

entire discography, each record is distinct, lived-in, its own beast. Seventh long-player Sub Verses is no different, and the changes are evident before a note is played ... incessant drum ramble introducing Sand Talk gives way to an Animal Collective mirroring psych pop explosion, a reminder that the two bands came forth from similar musical aesthetics before taking

follow-up King Tuff in 2012, which came out on the inimitable Sub Pop label. Yet Thomas doesn't use the name as a smokescreen that separates him from

real ambition, then found it all change when they signed to legendary indie label Sub Pop. “There was such a change that occurred in the life of that band ... doing it totally for fun, as almost this social thing. Then we signed with Sub Pop, and started touring a lot, and things got a bit more complicated,” remembers Thomas

their recorded versions for much of the set. While they lose some of their pop intensity in translation, the emotions become clearer, more of a dominant focus. It's interesting ... Tracks seem to run up against the limits of the sound-system quite often: sub-bass thrums, crackles, and fades; high guitar lines feel lost in the cavernous venue. When

TUFF consists of a really awesome garage, powerpop sound. He's signed to both Sub Pop and Burger Records (a Soundcloud account worth following in itself) and released a song

explore the juncture between the band's skilful pop accessibility and their relentless sonic experimentations. Mudhoney – Vanishing Point (Sub Pop/Inertia) A quarter of a century into their hallowed existence, these

above them, and Woodhead's ethereal androgynous vocals above that. It's a gorgeous pop song hidden behind an indie-credible electro groove. Infectious and polyrhythmic single, Egypt , recalls ... Wave – a jittery anti-minimalist, schizophrenic song that, despite its sub three-minute run time, would come close to cramming more separate noises into a single song than nearly