Janglepop wasn't mainstream music - the bands' lyrics were often deliberately cryptic and their sound was raw and amateurish, bearing all the signs of do-it-yourself productions.
Janglepop was closely related to the power pop genre, including bands like The Raspberries and Big Star, who blur the line between the two styles.
Janglepop became an important force in the development of alternative rock in the early 1980s, as exemplified by the early albums of R.E.M. The Smiths, The Connells and The Beat Farmers.
Just when you think you’ve settled into the gaunt beauty of drums and piano, a profusion of strings, pedal steel, and vibraphone slide, and then burst out of the seams of this recording, leaving their colorful trails over the tape until they disappear from earshot again.
In the ballpark of Coldplay and Keane, embracing the dream pop and emo rock worlds, their subdued, charming songs vividly paint a fl and white imagination.
Grant-Lee Phillips in the raw, in the dark, in the basement.
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