Recommended Pop: Twee Pop music (#1 - #40)
CINEPLEXX: Picnic
Spanish-language indie pop with lush arrangements and swaying rhythms. Featuring members of Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits and Federico Aubele.
CD price: $12.97
THE MOLLIES: Yours Around the Rosies
Sweet, eclectic and quirky with a slight edge
Recommended if you like The Sundays, Camera Obscura.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GOODNIGHT MONSTERS: Summer Challenge
youthful exuberance and quality pop hooks from a young guitar band out of Finland. Their second album is a bit more refined then the debut, without loosing any inch of the freshness. On the contrary, it's full of super-charming melodies and rhythms.
CD price: $12.97
POLAND: Schoolboy Crush On Che Guevara
Chamber pop. Moody guitar pop with boy/girl harmonies and a string quartet. For fans of Brian Wilson and Lennon & McCartney, and all those who have followed.
CD price: $10.00
GUMPTION: Ultramaroon
Indie pop produced by Chris Stamey in 1997, featuring Peter Holsapple of REM on keyboards. RIYL Superchunk, Versus, Archers of Loaf, etc.
CD price: $12.97
SUMMER CATS: Scratching Post
Sweetness and sunshine are the flavour of the day when it comes to local Melbourne popsters, Summer Cats. Together since mid 2006, this effervescent girl/boy 5 piece are delighted to announce the release of their debut Australian EP, Scratching Post, thro
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
CHEESE ON BREAD: Samurai (Single)
Variations on a theme. Fast side: post-structuralist power pop. Slow side: deconstructionist alt-country.
MP3 price: $4.99
CHEESE ON BREAD: The Search for Colonel Mustard
Exuberant orchestral twee pop masks critiques of modernity. Like the Muppets produced by Brian Wilson and operated by Derrida.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JUNI JARVI: Wherever Thou Art
Lush Swedish indiepop, with heartfelt lyrics and strings. Fans of Jens Lekman, The Magnetic Fields, and Sarah Records will be certain to appreciate.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
THE DEPT.: Be Your Friend?
The Dept. is bedroom pop that combines drum machines, synths, & guitar ".with a voice that's a little like Donovan's on a melancholy day".
MP3 price: $9.95
BEARS: Simple Machinery
Orchestral, harmony-rich indie pop without the typical indie pretension.
Recommended if you like Belle and Sebastian, The Shins.CD price: $10.00
BOY GENIUS: Anchorage
80s college rock meets 60s pop with hooks, horns, and boy-girl vocal harmonies.
CD price: $10.00
PHOEBE KREUTZ: Big Lousy Moon
Joke folk for bruised hearts. Silly, dreamy and highly literate, these songs are for the smarty-pants romantic.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GREG CAMILLERI: Auditions (Remastered)
Catchy, melancholy indie pop that sounds like Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Beck, Jon Brion, Radiohead, Tom Waits, and The Postal Service playing "Duck Hunt" with The Velvet Underground.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
LUCY MICHELLE & THE VELVET LAPELLES: Orange Peels & Rattlesnakes
Female fronted folk outfit out of Minnesota de-constructs standard sounds and carefully crafts tunes using Ukulele, Accordion, Cello and other unique instrumentation.
Recommended if you like Mirah, Jolie Holland.
THE DOTS: Shooting Star
This song was written and recorded by six young girls to raiase money for the Justin Mychals Childhood Cancer foundation.100% of the proceeds from the sale of this CD go toward the fund.Ashlyn ,one of the members herself is a cancer survivor.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
MILK & FRUIT JUICE: Nobody Listens to Silent People
Sometimes things are not what they seem. Sometimes the sound of ukulele can replace the words that cannot be said.
ASHLEY ARGOTA: Ashley
This CD crosses the bridge between Rihanna style R&B and Miley Cyrus pop/rock.
CD price: $14.00
ANDREW PHILLIP TIPTON: The Champion of Love
Silly sad songs about being a 24 year old little kid.
CD price: $10.00
"BUG" BOWER: Cartoons & Kid Tunes
This is a children's book & CD. It is perfect for youngsters from one to seven years old, and each song has a cartoon coloring page to color.
Recommended if you like "THE SINGING DOGS".CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95
UMBRELLA HUNT: Umbrella Hunt
Eclectic Indie pop with songs about Falling, Freaks on Planes, Fables, Time and Everything We See.
MP3 price: $9.99
MY UNBORN CHILDREN: Foolish
Little love songs featuring accordion, synths, and pedal steel guitar.
Recommended if you like Camera Obscura.CD price: $14.00
ANGEL CORPUS CHRISTI: White Courtesy Phone
Alt pop rock accordion-wielding singer/songwriter who performs stylish arrangements of hip cover tunes and heartfelt originals
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE VISION OF A DYING WORLD: and The Grammar Lamb
"Apocalyptic circus-folk" - San Diego City Beat
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
NATALIE WEESE: Make Believe
Teen-oriented pop rock with hip hop leanings. Think Hilary Duff meets Gwen Stefani.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ARITAO RECORDS: A Blossoming - Compilation CD
A mix of electro, shoegaze, IDM, folk pop, new wave and experimental indie pop
Recommended if you like My Bloody Valentine, Interpol.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
LAURA MONACO: Laura Monaco
Melodic, driving, fun, sweet, sassy, and romantic Pop-Rock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KATE HART: Natural Born Wallflower
Indie-pop with some pop-punk undertones.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
CHRIS AND MOLLIE: The Palm Tree
Color me as confused as anyone that some unknown, twee-leaning folk duo just made one of the most interesting records of the year, a tornado of sadness and hope. -Cokemachineglow.com
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
POLAND: Tuesdays & Wednesdays
"Beautifully orchestrated chamber pop" - guitars, piano, percussion, and lush strings mix with electronica; patterns and textures, organic and electric.
Recommended if you like Belle and Sebastian, Brian Wilson, Sigur Rós, The Sea and Cake, The High Llamas.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MISS SHERRI: My Green Shoes
Kid-centric, groovy, fun. Silly enough to hook kids and entertain parents.
Recommended if you like Dan Zanes, Laurie Berkner.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
CHEESE ON BREAD: Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby
Bouncy post-structuralist anti-folk quintet delivering biting critiques of the modern condition via exuberant, catchy, twee pop.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
BEN SCHIFFER: Twenty Years
The intimacy of an acoustic album while keeping your foot tapping with percussive guitar, powerful strings and piano, and a sultry voice.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CAPSELA: you're not listening to me
"tiny music made by tiny people" :: electro-acoustic indie-folk
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GRANT: something to believe in
Joycore. Catchy, medium-fi songs about love, serial killers and the physical sciences.
MP3 price: $9.99
TOASTED HERETIC: Now In New Nostalgia Flavour
Recorded on a dodgy 4-track with toy instruments in 1988 and 1989... two classic albums of early Irish lo-fi. Short, funny, twisted, literary. Fronted by novelist Julian Gough ( Juno & Juliet). And featuring the famous "wiggly guitar" of Declan Collins...
CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99
SILLY PILLOWS: Silly Image Pillowhead
Can't decide if they're "indie-pop"? "power-pop"? "sixties-pop"? "punk-pop"? "surf-pop"? "twee-pop"? "lounge-pop"? "psych-pop"? It's pillow-pop.
Recommended if you like Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian.CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
