Drawing on a range of musical influences, from the effortless summer melodies of The Beach Boys to Wild Nothing’s dreamy, shoegazing hue through to the interweaving guitar work of Real Estate, the indie outfit formed the unmistakable sound of Swimming Tapes and self-released their debut single “Souvenirs” in March 2016.

Slow-burning instrumental sections swoon alongside the quick-fire accessible pop songwriting that won Swimming Tapes fans from day one. With Tom Schick - known for his work with the likes of Real Estate, Iron & Wine and Jeff Tweedy - behind the mixing desk and a UK tour in April, 2019 is set to be a defining year for Swimming Tapes.

 

 

Virgin Suicide consists of vocal Martin Grønne, guitar Terkel Røjle, drums Simon Thoft Jensen, bass Kristian Schøtt Kyvsgaard and Synth Jeppe Østergaard.

The band – who met at school in the town of Silkeborg, in western Denmark, before they relocated to Copenhagen and formed Virgin Suicide in 2012. In 2015, Virgin Suicide premiered the first single, self-titled "Virgin Suicide", off their upcoming debut album Virgin Suicide. And with The Raveonettes frontman Sune Rose Wagner co-produced the whole thing it definitely seems a promising album. “The album aims to reflect on our lust for love, sex, party, family, death and all the emotional contrasts you go through while finding your identity.”

The jangled and bright guitar pop, which is the group's distinctive, becomes on the new recordings contrasted with a more gloomy and dramatic expression. Virgin Suicide denotes their sound as dark romantic and mentions Shoegaze pioneers like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, and the Suede album <Dog Man Star> among inspiration sources.

 

I Mean Us, formed in Taipei at the end of 2015,creates music with a mix of indie pop, noise pop, shoegaze and dream pop. They hope to turn music into a connection between people that resolves the loneliness every individual feels in this big world. They are warm and romantic, holding in their hands "the key to sensibility and reawakening the desire for love in people's lives."

After three years, they finally released the first full-length album "OST". The band performed at the SXSW Music Festival in the US in March 2019, and then began touring in mainland China and Japan.

Instrumental music leads the analog sounds of the 1990s, with the vocals intertwining, singing the inner agitation and the heartbreaks; they are I Mean Us, singing the ‘cheesy’ love songs at the end of the century.