March Records
New York's March Records is one of the best and the brightest imprints of the pop underground, releasing quirky new artists with catchy, memorable sounds. Whether it's noise-pop, fuzzy indie rock, New Wave-inspired sci-fi music, or teenybopper pop, if it's on March, you can be darn sure it's good. The label's outstanding discography includes releases by Outrageous Cherry, Godzuki, Takako Minekawa, The Delgados, and many others.
Barcelona
Smile as the sweet voices coo sweet nothings and sway your hips to the Casio's bounce. These featherweight Atari-pop songs from this merry band of New Wave nostalgists will tickle anyone who remembers the early '80s fondly.
Zero One Infinity
Studio Hair Gel EP
Benett
With the assistance of a few helpful boys, California chanteuse Benett combines her affection for charming vintage girl group sounds with a taste for noisy lo-fi experimentation.
Welcome to the Jungle
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2002
Allen Clapp
Head Orange Peel Allen Clapp sets out on his own to capture the magic of the soft rock superheroes of the '70s, creating an odd and enticing blend of baroque pop and soft soul that tickles the ears most pleasurably.
Available Light
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2002
Embellish
Embellish is a criminally catchy power-pop sextet from Denmark with an intensely melodic sound more addictive than sweets and more energizing than caffeine.
Wake Me Up!
Figurine
Channeling the sugar sweet melodies and
catchy songwriting of '80s New Wave icons
OMD, Pet Shop Boys, and Depeche Mode, the
L.A.-via-San Francisco-via-Northampton,
Massachusetts trio Figurine hook you into a
singalong with every electronic bleep, boing,
and blip.
The Heartfelt
Transportation + Communication = Love
Kleenexgirlwonder
Kleenexgirlwonder is the pseudonym used by Chicago-based goofball Graham Smith for his cheeky and gleefully self-involved bedroom pop concoctions.
After Mathematics
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2002
The Ocean Blue
Sometimes good things do stick around, and The Ocean Blue, with their jangly pop sound and poignant poetry, is one such thing. More than a decade after they got started, their sound is as full, sweet, and intricately melodic as ever.
Davy Jones' Locker
Ooberman
Quirky offbeat indie pop with some serious psychedelic folk leanings, sort of like an English Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Or like laffy taffy in a parallel dimension.
Running Girl
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2002
P.E.E.
Dueling male-female vocals, layers of guitar, and endless time changes highlight P.E.E.'s energetic songs. Their beautiful cacaphony has been labeled math-pop, quirk-rock, and emo-post-punk-pop. Whatever you call it, the music is graceful and gutsy, pretty and powerful.
Now, More Charm And More Tender
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1996
The Roaring Mechanism
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1998
Wolfie
Wolfie is a paragon of boy-girl indie pop excellence. If catchy melodies make you giddy, you can't do much better than these gleeful, effervescent little nuggets.
Tall Dark Hill
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2001
