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Indie-Pop outfit return with limited edition 7”!
Listening to Jessica &
The Fletchers' latest 7” re-awakened something of my fading youth.
Too young for punk or post-punk, and jaded by the time Brit-pop took
over the charts, my own year zero was back in 1986. Or C86 if you
prefer. A time when the likes of Talulah Gosh, The Shop Assistants
and The Bodines were putting out great records, doing grass roots
gigs and getting recognition in the weeklies. It was an all-too brief
flowering but regained important ground from '80s perfectionists and
pony-tailed professionals. More importantly it gave females an equal
footing in making music, something which hadn't really happened since
the very early days of punk (a move sadly hi-jacked by punk's second
wave and the onset of Oi).
Jessica & The
Fletchers describe themselves as a noise-pop quartet and that's
pretty much on the mark; bittersweet lyrics are sweetly sung and
backed up by fuzzy guitars. One part flowers, one part razorblades.
With a sound that's deliberately amateurish, in the purest and best
sense of the word, the lyrics are winsome with themes of young and
innocent love, somehow apart from the modern world but also very much
needed. The songs are short, with no needless solos, and all about
the melody. Perfect fayre to be pressed onto their natural home of 7”
plastic.
For fans of Sarah
Records, Talulah Gosh, Jesus & Mary Chain and fans of spirited
and catchy pure-pop in general. Limited to 300 copies, this 7”
comes housed in a Risograph fold-over sleeve with a hand-numbered
postcard fetauring the lyrics to both songs.
Click here for Jessica
& The Fletchers on Twitter.
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