The hunt for an ideal guitar pop was a severe enterprise within the post-punk period, and nowhere received as shut as in Scotland with Postcard Information. With its stylised brilliance, traditional guitars and much more traditional frantic strummed riffs and blue boy melodies that melted from the grooves the label was an instantaneous collector traditional with a shocking sequence of seven inch singles. Beneath the banner of ‘the sound of younger Scotland’ their catalogue of Orange Juice, Aztec Digicam and Josef Okay have been all releasing craving genius guitar pop rushes which have sat there for many years like a ticking time bomb ready for a younger band to rediscover them as a key affect like an historic treasure.
New Manchester band, Arkayla, could or could not have discovered these hallowed seven inch singles in a charity store someplace and rediscovered the keys the magic kingdom, however they’ve in some way discovered that good mixture of quicksilver melody, agitated guitars and guitar traditional with crooning vocals and a poetic and cheeky appeal that made these Postcard information so timeless and compelling.
Stay the group have that brisk appeal and easy swing that makes the perfect guitar pop, and a set filled with songs that each one sound like seven-inch missive pop classics. The viewers swoon and the band ship and the long run belongs to them to interrupt hearts and encourage one more technology of guitar romantics.
The band are so completely fashioned that they’re on the quick observe for being the subsequent Manchester band to interrupt. Their latest gig was offered out, and the viewers adored the group as they soundtracked love’s younger goals and suburban adventures. All indie goals for this hallowed place and few arrive there so effortlessly. Arkayla have songs that can met your coronary heart and make you are feeling human once more in these unusual instances.
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