Pretty: Pretty is an exorcising force. Instead of chewing up nostalgia and retro pop culture, Pretty vomits up all of our digestive enzymes and degrades our influences in front of a live audience. This is the way of the mushroom. This is our way. This cleansing purge and destruction finds new life as sound and as the joy one experiences when they realize they are not alone in their anxieties. We are dancing at the end of the world and we are dancing together

Love Tutorial: Love Tutorial is as much a post-modern art project as it is an indie band. With power pop ballads that draw as much from the novels of Don DeLillo as they do the albums of Prefab Sprout, the South London 5-piece are effortlessly slicing through the detached ironic malaise of the 2020s and Making Music Sincere Again.

Waterpistol: Taking inspiration from the likes of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Marty Robbins and The Mamas and Papas, singing guitarist Aaron Tormey started writing for a project that would later become rock ‘n’ roll collective Waterpistol. Reflecting his vision, the six-piece combines the celestial makeup of 90s shoegaze with the late 60s unfolding of folk, jazz, and the blues. The band’s first single ‘Living in a Dream’ is a dream-like and visceral track with an underlying tongue-in-cheek delivery, referring to the grind of the 9 to 5.

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