Oh Maybe I Should Mess Around With Somebody Else's Wife

Is sounding like The Smiths fashionable again? Or does it ever completely go out of fashion in indiepop circles? These are the questions on our quivering lips on listening to 'Oh Maybe I' from East London's hotly-tipped Chapel Club.

Chapel Club - O Maybe I (Official Video) from Chapel Club on Vimeo.

And the answer's yes and no respectively, when it's this good.

Fasten Your Seatbelts

Oxford's The Scholars are learned friends who have apparently been closely studying the moody monochrome guitar pop of Editors, White Lies et al, but there's enough about new single 'Turbulence' to keep us interested in their flight path.



Perspective: we approve.

Fizzy Pop

In an attempt (no doubt doomed to failure) to kickstart this site with something fresh, random and relatively low-maintenance we intend to feature some interesting upcoming acts who may be worth looking out for over the coming year, albeit ones that are unlikely to be rubbing shoulders with the Ellie Gouldings of this world in the upper tier of the charts.

Dunno much about Niels Nielsen but we found his bedroom anthem 'We Are Youth' via here and we're liking it lots. The promo is a minimalist hoot, too:



It's frothy, man.