Yumi Zouma - Keep It Close To Me

As Yumi Zouma sails closer to the release of the their debut LP, they drop this breezy new single, Keep It Close To Me. With a propulsive beat and cloud-like chord progression, Zouma maintain their own brand of glassy-disco. Like Saint Etienne, Yumi Zouma has a keen sense of how to blend the best aspects of house and twee for light, yet poignant pop songs. Look out for new tunes from the New Zealanders this Spring and hopefully it will help us all inch closer to Summer!!

Yumi Zouma - The Brae

Twinkling Dream Pop by way of New Zealand, Yumi Zouma serve up a healthy portion of Twee casserole, with The Brae. Reminiscent of early Wild Nothing, Talulah Gosh, and more recently Pure Bathing Culture, this a track that jangles with echoy guitar and balearic vocal harmonies. Are you super into bay window seat cushions? Do you have a strong affinity for all things paisley? Do vintage hairbrushes have a special place in your heart? And is watching the film Blow Up a weekly routine of yours? Well this is clearly a tune for you:

Close Lobsters - What Is There To Smile About?

Scottish C86'ers, Close Lobsters have remained largely unknown for what seems like eons. This summer they'll join other post-punk, twee, and jangle-pop connoisseurs like The Bats, and The Monochrome Set at New York's Popfest. Despite their often avante-garde guitar structures, the band is really a pop powerhouse; which can be noted with their first album Foxheads Stalk This Land. (Their second effort Headache Rhetoric is nothing to snub your nose at either!) Take a listen to their 88' single What Is There To Smile About? I'd say there really is nothing to smile about this time of year, except perhaps this song and its fun lovin video, featured on MTV!