Recommended Pop: British Pop music (#1 - #40)
DERBY: Derby E.P.
"Percussion-heavy, Beach Boys-influenced pop that would feel at home between Spoon and the Rentals in your heavy rotation stack."
MP3 price: $4.99
THE HIGH VIOLETS: Satellite Remixes
Described as leaders of the second coming of the shoegazer sound. This remix album is filled with dance/electro/techno/down-tempo mixes of songs from their last two albums.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE THEATRE: Act 1
Real, honest lyrics blanketed in ambient soundscapes.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JONAH: Trust Everyone Before They Break Your Heart
Lush and anthemic guitar-pop with soaring melodies and artfully crafted songs.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
DECORATION: Don't Disappoint Us Now
Decoration grip your emotions with a simple recipe of shimmering, interfering guitars and lyrical reflections on life, they make atmospheric pop soar, in the classic indie tradition.
Recommended if you like The Smiths, The Wedding Present.CD price: $11.98
ZEROSTARS: Basement Stories
A carefully refined and gorgeously arranged ten song rumination on failure, hope, and redemption.
CD price: $10.00
THE NOEL PRIOR BAND: Hazards
Think of a 'pop-tastic' blend of acoustic guitars, lazy piano, banjos, melodicas and vocal harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BISON: The Dark Side of the Moo
Branching out from the ska-pop template of the first two albums, with a more unusual (but still poptastic) mix of tunes.
MP3 price: $9.99
DENNIS DRISCOLL: Hello Dennis Driscoll
Dennis Driscoll's debut album Hello Dennis Driscoll is filled with endearingly awkward yet catchy pop tunes, replete with jangly guitars and quirky lyrics. Driscoll's subject matter for songs ranges from girls to monsters to desserts, as well as homages t
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THEIR MAJESTIES: Lands Where Tales Are Tall
Indie, pop, rock
Recommended if you like Sloan, Supergrass.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: Eyes
"A Dunfermline four-piece with the menace of Joy Division and the slacker indie cool of Pavement. Whether it’s their engrossing hooks, guitar flurries, or the occasional brooding soundscape, the band set a high benchmark."-Stuart McHugh, THE LIST magazine
CD price: $6.00
BEARS: Shortest Day of The Year
Indie pop for the discerning listener
CD price: $6.25 / MP3 price: $6.25
KELLY'S HEELS: Neither Use nor Ornament
Gorgeous melodic guitar pop with an edge from a cool London band
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE TURN-ONS: Parallels
“This long running Seattle band takes their time recording albums, but it’s always worth the wait for their Nikki Sudden, Velvet Undergroundish tracks that can’t be taken lightly." John Richards, KEXP 90.3FM
KIT ASHTON: Blindsided
British alternative pop rock from a singer-songwriter with a unique voice, poetic heart, and a big sound...
CD price: $8.75 / MP3 price: $8.75
THE DRAFT: Kill Yourselfishness
objective growth, investment grade, high yield, international equity, holdings, asset allocation strategy, increase return appropriation music
MP3 price: $10.00
THE GREEN AND YELLOW TV: Sinister Barrier
often dreamy, sometimes heavy, always hooky. This is a new kind of pop with some classic roots
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
TADHG COOKE: Wax & Seal
Debut album from one of Ireland's most interesting emerging recording artists. "Eminently likeable, utterly enviable" **** - The Irish Times.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
TEN SPEED RACER: Death to Disco (E.P.)
If Queens of the Stone Age joined forces with Spiritualized on an album, this would be it. These 5 Dublin lads (3 of them are brothers) created "A vivacious mix of sonically charged guitars, ethereal melodies & intelligent vocals." VIRTUALLY ALTERNATIVE
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
OTTESTAD: Ottestad
A blend of swirly English pop rock and traditional American singer/songwriting,
CD price: $12.97
UHF: All Our Golden Tomorrows
Psych pop that mixes classic pop songwriting, modern electronic experimentation and 60's-era British psychedelia.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
BLINK: the end is high
A mix of pop, punk and rock - moody and atmospheric in parts, loud and full of energy in parts, lots of catchy tunes
MP3 price: $12.97
PLANS & APOLOGIES: The Tree Dee Pee EP
Indie Guitar Pop. Not the staunch, humourless kind either.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
REDECCO: Falling At Various Speeds
Clear, intimate, spacious, and dynamic...strings, piano, guitars...moody yet bright vocals...and ohh the harmonies...thank you for listening...
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $13.95
LES FRADKIN: Perfect World
60's Beach Boys & Beatles style Summertime Pop from Les Fradkin of Beatlemania. Features new versions of "My Baby Loves Lovin'","Smile A Little Smile" and "Love Grows." - all iTunes smash hits. On RRO-"The Sound Of Your Digital Lifestyle"
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
GRAVITY ENGINE: hydrazine morning
Indie Folk Rock "dancing the line between the jangly and the sonic, the warm and the edgy, the lush and the angular," ethereal melodies & thought-provoking lyrics; "draws the listener effortlessly into a pleasant commiseration with his melancholia."
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
SOFAMECCA: Commuters
"The band has a steady grasp on where ambience ends and real late night, bruised-hearted atmosphere begins" Rolling Stone Magazine AUS
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
VINYL KINGS: Time Machine
What if the Beatles and the Beach Boys found themselves in a studio together? A "Revolver" meets "Pet Sounds" experience.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, The Beach Boys.MP3 price: $14.97
MANEJA BETO: Para Que Las Paredes No Se Aburran
From the traditional sounds of Mexico, to the postmodern moods of brit pop bands, Maneja Beto produces sounds with no conception of borders, diverse and eclectic, accented by a political conscience, and a willingness to defy prepackaged genres.
Recommended if you like Café Tacuba.MP3 price: $12.00
THE DALLOWAYS: Penalty Crusade
"The Dalloways reach for Brit Pop and manage to find the sweet ether where California coolness ends and the emotional reverb of '80s British rockers begins." -Find out more...
Recommended if you like The Cure, The Smiths, The Beautiful South, Coldplay, Belle and Sebastian, Doves, Kings of Convenience.CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
THE THOMPSON TWINS: Quick Step & Side Kick
Breakthrough US album for one of the '80s most influential and best known bands. Considered by many to be a sythpop masterpiece and the Twins best album
DAVID HOPKINS: Scared Rabbit EP
For fans of Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, this is FOR YOU.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
MOTEL CREEPS: Pleasantries in the Parlor
A smoldering blend of alternative (new wave) and modern (shoegaze) rock, layered with perceptive sound and a disarming alteration of vocals. As charming as a stranger peering from behind a dark door.
CD price: $5.99
JAMES ANGELL: Private Player
"The underground classic of 2002" as Angell's new release was aptly named by this All Music Guide Pick at 4 1/2 Stars, "A brilliant exercise in modern day psychedelia. Angell's music is unique in that he wields influences as far-flung as jazz, soul, pop..
Recommended if you like John Lennon, David Bowie.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
