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PopMatters » Power Pop
4M ago
The Lemon Twigs' A Dream Is All We Know displays scholarly mastery of the complex techniques their forbears invented. The sheer musicality is prodigious ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
8M ago
With his 1979 debut album Look Sharp!, Joe Jackson joined the league of UK artists who fused sophisticated pop songwriting with a punk snarl ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
10M ago
Power pop has to have some punch. This can be manifested in different ways but is frequently through a hook-laden electric guitar line ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
10M ago
Pugwash mastermind Thomas Walsh excels at Beatlesque power pop, sounding like a cross between ELO and baroque-era Trash Can Sinatras ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
11M ago
Flat Mary Road break through with Little Realities and deliver jangly, hook-laden power-pop with a touch of Harry Chapin thrown in for good measure ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
11M ago
The sophistication of Charlie Kaplan's gorgeous LP is impressive and a reminder that sometimes the simplest, sincere gestures are the warmest and longest-lasting ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
11M ago
The simple joys of writing songs and sharing them remain the driving forces for indie pop veterans Teenage Fanclub. Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley discuss ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
11M ago
Mississippi husband-and-wife duo Bark offer up power pop filtered through a hazy lens of distortion on Loud, their most fully realized work yet ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
11M ago
Man on Man excel at delivering pop hooks in various ways across rock genres, and with ten tracks at 42 minutes, there's plenty of playful joy on Provincetown ..read more
PopMatters » Power Pop
11M ago
Ramones' Ramones uses reduction as a means to end, to bring rock back to its roots, whereas Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? uses reduction as the end itself to mirror society's decline. ..read more