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The Rosslyns
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"ultra-obscure lo-fi UK bedroom pop", signed to Harriet Records (US) & My Secret World (UK), distributed by Virgin Music

Essex (then), Essex Road (now).

https://harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-we-ever-did-was-try
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The Rosslyns @therosslyns.bsky.social · Nov 16
This sympathetic, but far superior cover version is probably the greatest compliment we've ever been paid. Properly in debt to the terrific @assistantband.bsky.social 💖

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSGS...
Assistant - We’re Doing It For The Kids
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therosslyns.bsky.social
Still WAY too excited that we heard our 90-sec tambourine/guitar pile-up “There’s always next year“ on Carl Thien’s magnificent show on WZBC last night.

Really appreciate the support!
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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If you only read one thing today! The spirit of adventure, the joy of discovery, the bravery of open heartedness, the thrill of being a listener - it’s all in this short archived piece about the terrific @therosslyns.bsky.social
therosslyns.bsky.social The Rosslyns @therosslyns.bsky.social · 3d
Back one last time to the 35th anniversary thread, with the final act of The Rosslyns mk. I: our interview with Incite!

When Tim from Harriet Records came round for tea and toast, and listened to the new songs that he would release 32 years later.
Photograph of the Rosslyns interview in issue #18 of Incite! fanzine, from Cambridge, MA. This issue arrived in November 1990. Still incredible to us that not all that long after Tim had taken out Galaxie 500 for a pizza, and on the same trip to England that he met up with indiepop superstars like Gregory Webster & Liz Price, he came round to my parents’ house (they were away) and interviewed us. I said a few (mildly) idiotic things, but that’s the passion of youth for you… The interview would actually be pretty much the last thing that particular Rosslyns line-up ever did! We played Tim a number of new tracks, also giving him a copy of our severely-limited edition “Paperchase” cassingle which (like some of the other tracks) would eventually get released by Harriet Records in 2022, on SPY 16. Forever respect to Tim, obviously.
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I’m releasing an EP today, with new versions of some earlier Sunny Intervals songs, including Sixty Seconds To Fall in Love.

It’s on Spotify here:
open.spotify.com/album/5pxxUs...

And part of a deluxe Bandcamp version of my new album here:
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com/album/swept-...

#indiepop
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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lastdaysofrome.bsky.social
My new single is out now!

To all of you who send your music / art out into the ether in the hopes of brightening somebody's day: this song is for you.

'When the truth sounds bleak / we'll make better fiction / something to get lost in on a rainy day'

lastdaysofrome2.bandcamp.com/track/better...
Better Fiction, by Last Days of Rome
track by Last Days of Rome
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November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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shopfiresmusic.bsky.social
The limited edition compilation CD from NEUCLOUDS will be available to individually preorder from 30th November. Watch this space for further updates.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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From this Sunday at 7pm onwards I'll be hosting a regular show on @untidyradio.bsky.social. I'll be playing indie pop & adjacent stuff & am, as always, here to help if you have jangly stuff to share. The first show features The Felt Tips, Hazelene, The Lovely Basement, Armstrong, R.M.F.C & others x
You'll like my radio show if you are the sort of person who likes The Go-Betweens, Broadcast, Felt, The Field Mice, The Lemonheads, St. Etienne, Huggy Bear, Robyn Hitchcock, Kevin Ayers, Can, The Chills, Suga Free, Orange Juice, Keel Her, The Pastels, Heavenly, The Wedding Present, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, The Church, The Clean, Tim Burgess, Style Council, Television Personalities, Françoise Hardy, Durutti Column, Stereolab, Young Marble Giants, Josef K, Aztec Camera, Shopfires, Wave Pictures, BMX Bandits, The Rosslyns, Boyracer, The Fall, Blue Orchids, Lovejoy, David Lance Callahan, Zenxith, James, Lee Morgan, Happy Mondays, Sassyhiya, Shapes Like People, Last Days of Rome, Sea of Days, Humdrum, Pavement, Sunny Intervals, Tony Molina, Lightheaded, Laughing Chimes, Jackie McLean, Ballboy, Cornershop, Autocamper, Nap Eyes, Sea Orchids, The Sweetest Ache, Goodbye Wudaokou, John Cale, Helen McCookerybook, Wayne Shorter, Saul Bellow, Rachel Love, Perennial, Sneaky Feelings, The Felt Tips, EPMD, The Raincoats, Brighter, The Flatmates, The Bhundu Boys, Roxy Music, McCarthy, Razorcuts, Nico, Teenage Fanclub, Muriel Spark, Lunchbox, Northern Soul, The Cords, The Caretaker Race, Action Painting, Airport Girl, Masta Ace, Horowitz, Field Music, Poppycock, Smokey Robinson, David Hockney, Lindy Morrison, Electrelane, Blur, Bright Islands, The Reds, Pinks and Purples and lots lots lots lots more
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
therosslyns.bsky.social
Inordinately thrilled that our clattering, anorak-clad tune “Charmtrap” got a spin on Christchurch’s 8K.NZ this week!

Our thanks again to the talismanic CNQ - any recognition means a huge deal to a little band like us.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Major thanks to Jen @nstop.com for global first play of a track from 'Nadine', out on Nov 23, on this week's impressive Cycles Per Second show on @khuh.bsky.social -- 'I Want To', a previously unreleased studio recording. I was able to listen live...
Harriet Records
I ran Harriet Records between 1989 and 1998 out of Cambridge, MA. There are 16 "new" releases so far, most recently a CD by Hussy and the debut CD by The Lookout Honeys. Out now: the third CD by The E...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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V grateful to Chris for his lovely words on our split w/ @assistant.bandcamp.com : Sky Lantern: “It’s the kind of song that could worm its way into your heart and maybe even define you in months to come”; Flowers: “a lofi classic with a naive and catchy melody and an undercurrent of dying dreams” 💜🌹
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
therosslyns.bsky.social
one of our favourite radio shows, this. Great music but reliably eclectic too
cleannicequiet.bsky.social Clean Nice Quiet @cleannicequiet.bsky.social · 18d
Tune in to KPISS.FM on the internet today from 5-7p Eastern for two hours of cool tunes. I like using Radio Garden for internet radio, but ya know, do what you want to.
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Majorly blinding mixtape here to celebrate an equally blinding single.

Savour the likes of Felt, Declining Winter, the Pastels and more, plus the skinny on Assistant and Goodbye Wudaokou’s briskly autumnal double-header!
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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With thanks to Nathaniel, our 9yo, who filmed the falling leaves and car shots, the autumnal Sky Lantern video. Quite different from my more upbeat stuff and probably influenced by Elliott Smith, REM, YLT and the last The Declining Winter record:
youtu.be/7cs-LC7R134?...

#autumn #leaves #musicsky
Goodbye Wudaokou - Sky Lantern (Official Video)
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October 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Official video for Flowers by the wonderful Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com. I love the sparkling guitars on this one very much.

#janglepop #dreampop #BrightonandHove

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozF4...
Assistant - Flowers (official video)
YouTube video by Assistant
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October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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yyzrecords.bsky.social
Hi friends, two beautiful and very different songs by @assistant.bandcamp.com and @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social OUT NOW and lathe cuts coming to home near you soon. We’re ecstatic:

assistant.bandcamp.com/album/assist...

#indiepop #diysky #musicsky #lofi
Assistant / Goodbye Wudaokou (split single), by Assistant & Goodbye Wudaokou
2 track album
assistant.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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waysideandwoodland.bsky.social
Another joy to have worked on :-)
assistant.bandcamp.com Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 29d
Releasing on Friday 24th Oct; a split-single by Assistant & @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social; Flowers & Sky Lantern sit on either side of a ltd edition 7" pressed with care by @loosehairlathecuts.bsky.social. Both songs are mastered by Ben Holton (@waysideandwoodland.bsky.social). DIY indie-pop forever!
The front cover of Assistant & Goodbye Wudaokou's new split 7" single, which will be available for purchase from Friday. Split singles are the future!! Shared costs, shared hopes, shared intentions. This tag-team double A side by pals and mutual fans Assistant and Goodbye Wudaokou is also a day/night pop treat; crisp pop thrills with a shady segment on side A, and intimate/mournful whispers lit up by love on side AA. But which is best? Neither. This one is a tie.
October 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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One of the tracks for the forthcoming 12”. Going into the studio to do final mixes next month.
October 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Inspired by the thought of the forthcoming @assistant.bandcamp.com and @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social single!

So dug out a few prized split 7”s that have lit up the years…

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A tableau of 6 favourite split 7” singles, inspired by the coming Assistant/Goodbye Wudaokou one: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan” b/w The Parallelograms “1, 2, 3, Go!” / Pop The Bubbles” (Atomic Beat Records ABR 003) - saw these two play together at the Betsey in 2008(?), the latter not only a fine band but I think also moonlighted as one of the world's best tribute bands, the Fucking Rosehips... Atomic Beat was short-lived but glorious Built To Spill “By The Way” b/w Marine Research “Sick & Wrong” (K Records Vol LXXXIX) (covering each other’s tunes, or technically in BtS's case covering Heavenly) Despise You / Coke Bust 8-track split (Bones Brigade BB074) - two of the very best US PV-adjacent bands, unsurprisingly killing it Smiley Culture “Police Officer” b/w The Reprobates “Participation Two” (Fashion Records FAD 7012) - what a legacy (the artist and the label) Bis “Keroleen” b/w Heavenly “Trophy Girlfriend” (K Records IPU 66). Saw them play together in Nottingham, the first time I heard Heavenly play the latter, a particular fave The Keatons “Gold Vanes” b/w Hellfire Sermons “Callaghan” (Audacious One, flexi) - again, two great own-right combos, stepping out together for a 'zine Apologies I still can’t take photographs very well. Grainy picture of flip sides of 6 favourite split 7” singles: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan” b/w The Parallelograms “1, 2, 3, Go!” / Pop The Bubbles” (Atomic Beat Records ABR 003) Built To Spill “By The Way” b/w Marine Research “Sick & Wrong” (K Records Vol LXXXIX) (covering each other’s tunes) Despise You / Coke Bust 8-track split (Bones Brigade BB074) Smiley Culture “Police Officer” b/w The Reprobates “Participation Two” (Fashion Records FAD 7012) Bis “Keroleen” b/w Heavenly “Trophy Girlfriend” (K Records IPU 66) The Keatons “Gold Vanes” b/w Hellfire Sermons “Callaghan” (Audacious One, flexi)
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Being cut as we speak and out for preorder next week. A gorgeous split 7” from @assistant.bandcamp.com and @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social
Split 7” side A: Flowers by Assistant - a perfect slice of glistening indie pop. Split 7” side AA: Sky Lantern by Goodbye Wudaokou- a beautiful half-lit lament to love and loss.
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Us on this day, 35 years ago.

A Spanish fanzine had asked for a band pic so we used school non-uniform day to do our only ever band photo session, in and around Chelmsford's Central Park...

Few shots survive, but this one's a favourite

📷: @mattrowson.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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sunnyintervals.bsky.social
Six months ago, I released ‘Swept Away’. Thanks so much to everyone who’s listened to the songs!

Rosy Overdrive called it “delicately beautiful” and Janglepophub said it’s “indie-pop brilliance”. 😀

Please have a listen on Spotify or Bandcamp:
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com/album/swept-...

#indiepop
Swept Away, by Sunny Intervals
14 track album
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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wormholeworld.bsky.social
Delighted to announce the brand new album from Kaiho Zion.

Our new favourite manipulated sitar artist.

wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of...
eye of shiva, by kaiho zion
9 track album
wormholeworld.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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slowcountry.bsky.social
Tokyo newsflash: 'A Plateau, A Sunset', the latest single from Slow Country, is out now... #Tokyo #instrumental #guitar #dreampop #janglepop #indie #lofi thisisslowcountry.bandcamp.com/album/a-plat...
A Plateau, A Sunset, by Slow Country
3 track album
thisisslowcountry.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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It's #bandcampFriday so I've knocked £2 off the price of each of my IN THE APRIL SUN fanzines. You can get both for £3.50 today.

assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...
and
assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

Lots of great stuff, reviews, contributions, essays and diaries. New issue coming soon!
In The April Sun (Assistant Fanzine #1) from Assistant
In The April Sun (Assistant Fanzine #1) from Assistant
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October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social
Hey friends, should you be interested in picking up the new Goodbye Wudaokou album today, here’s a discount code, for all @subjangle.bsky.social releases: '20percent'

goodbyewudaokou.bandcamp.com/album/anythi...

#bandcampfriday #janglepop #indie #musicsky #autumnal #indiepop #indierock
Goodbye Wudaokou - Anything Of Us (album) CD art
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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slowcountry.bsky.social
Next up from Slow Country will be final single from ‘You Still Believe In Me’ backed with two previously unreleased tracks, coming Oct 10. Thanks to all for support. A few irons in the fire for next steps after this… As things stand, next 2 albums already recorded… but maybe some surprises in store…
September 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM