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Dear Tuesday Clubbers and Pop Pickers!

Welcome to our In the Club Supplemental Record Store Day special... The first ever Record store day was apparently in 2007. My first foray was in 1979 to Whsmith in Hemel where me and my mum sought Gary Numan’s Cars... unfortunately by the time we got to the shop cars had already dropped from the top 40 so went for the upgrade and got the album it featured on instead, the Pleasure Principle and from that day I was hooked!!!... My first 7” ended up being Joe Jackson’s It’s different for Girls... which I think was my first slow dance too (at 11 years old... incase you were wondering...)

Anyway since then I’ve LOVED vinyl... Yes I did have a handful of cassettes, although I was more a mixtape kinda kid, spending hours kneeling in front of my mum and dads stereo listening for the last second of the fade so I could press pause in time to make ready for the next track... I literally spent hours and hours doing that! And Yes I did have Cds, but have since sold them off and am in the slow process of gradually replacing them on my beloved wax!

Anyway, I digress... Back to the important point at hand... Recordstore Day... The idea of it from what we understood was, that it was going to be a great way to not only support your local record shop (if you were lucky enough to have one), but also a fantastic way of getting your releases above the usual weekly release ‘chatter’ from the major labels and actually into a physical store... Alas, that aspect hasn’t seemed to have worked out as we’d hoped with so many ltd edition reissues flooding the shelves, we’ve tended to get washed away with the tide... But as you know, we are tenacious and while we have breath, we are undaunted and we’ll be back for more of the same this year with the next Faction Structure long player!

Our tenacity bares credence from the fact that in the 15 years of Recordstore Day, the little old PPCO, (previously Ponyland records) has made 5 appearances with shinny new vinyl releases.

The First dabbling from the PPCO was in 2011 via The Scratch putting music out through their own (Ponyland Records) at the time with a 7” vinyl homage to vinyl records Homely Crackle, with a crackly self illustrated video to match. Ponyland Records –PON073

Homely Crackle is a Love Song and homage to the halcyon days of record shops, thumbing through vinyl and the excitement of finding something new and collectable! The track is backed by cult favourite Narcotic Hearts... So good in fact, it has since made a come back as a full band as well as a song!

The single is (still) limited to just 200 copies (we probably have 100 left!) and is not be available as a separate MP3 or CD. It was stocked in recordstores around the country from it’s release date on Record Store day and you can now also get it on discogs or via thescratch.bandcamp.com

To Coincide with the release the band performed a live in store show from David’s record shop in Letchworth, 12 Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 3DE. Released April 16, 2011

A feat repeated by the next PPCO foray this time in 2013 with The Tuesday Club, saw the band blasting out tracks from the white vinyl LP via a flower Store above Hackney Road Studios near Old Street! See some rare live footage via our new Youtube channel, read on for more info!

The 3rd RSD appearance by a PPCO artist was 2017’s vinyl only release of My Songs about Life Mid Crisis by Reverse Family who famously followed this exclusive release with their RF365 project (52x7 track eps) 1 per week for a year.

It was 5 years until the next showing... COVID probably/definitely stopping Andreas and The Wolf’s Fountain of Truth from appearing, so that honour was left to Faction Structure’s debut album Buy-in into Fantasy in April 2022.

Which brings us right up to date with their latest (of 5 planned) vinyl release Circles. Which comes out on 23 April and like it’s predecessor is available exclusively from Empire Records and the bands bandcamp. The only other place it will be on sale (subject to availability) will be The 2nd Annual Perfect pop co Review party in October.

Hopefully see you in Empire Records this Saturday! Or you may bump into GAND? CLICK

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NEW TUBE!!!!!!!

It’s taken a while to do... but we’ve finally got round to uploading a history of the PPCO and beyond onto our YouTube Channel. As you can see we’ve got TONNES of content (currently 57 videos) that we’ve amassed since 2005 from all of our artisits The Scratch, The Tuesday Club, Reverse Family, Andreas & The Wolf, Narotic Hearts and Faction Structure which at the moment is almost exclusive to our tiny following... which is where dear Perfect Pop fan you come in!!! (PLEASE :-)

Here’s a link all we ask is you click it and subscribe and if we’re really lucky share to your mates and in return we promise to continue to keep you amused, entertained or even outraged depending on your persuasion at the time!

https://www.youtube.com/@perfectpopco-op

As a special thanks to all of you we are today releasing 3 videos for the first time at different times record store day on Saturday! SO get subscribed and be among the first to see these gems of past PPCO exploits...

VIEW THREE BRAND NEW UPLOADS HERE ON SATURDAY 22 APRIL THROUGHOUT THE DAY...

And to whet your appetite for the next instalments here’s our little ode to Record Shops and The idea of Record Store Day

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The other major PPCO thang we’ve been up to, is unifying our BANDCAMP sites so all of our sites and artists are now linked and easily accessible to you and the world! We’ve totally refurbed and updated each site and are offering discounts for those completists among you who want everything from everyone in one go NOW! Just click one of the pics below and you will be beamed to each bandcamp, while there if you’d be so kind as to like/share/follow us

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we’d be highly delighted and it’s also the best way to keep up with all of the new material and also the old stuff that you can’t get in the shops anymore particularly the vinyl and cds (remember them?!) and also the side projects like the D.O.D.O, The Bleeed and our legendary Samplers which you can’t get anywhere else! PLUS limited edition merch too!

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Andreas and the Wolf have been making radio shows for over 10 years. Their show is ‘presented’ in their own inimitable and bungled style, and if you love Indie, indie dance, new wave, post punk, old school punk, vinyl and discovering new music, this has to be the show for you! This is not

just an excuse to plunder their own musical heritage though, oh no, this eclectic show comes interspersed with tracks that have influenced them over the years by established artists and also tracks by fellow ‘DIYers’, underground mavericks and tomorrows indie superstars. You gotta click this link and get yourself subscribed. The show comes out once a month and can be found on the: perfectpopco-op.co.uk and mixcloud.com/perfectpopcoop

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VAXX(acidic) - 5.30

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RECORD STORE DAY 2023

Record Store Day this year is huge one. It’s the first year post-COVID that there has only been one “drop” (previous years the event has been spread across two or three dates to allow for social distancing and supply chain relief), so there’s masses of great stuff on offer this year to get excited about!

Pop biggies from Taylor Swift and The 1975 are obviously high on a lot of people’s list, but expect a diverse range of other musical styles too, ranging from metal, folk, reggae, soundtracks, and featuring acts like The Prodigy, Bert Jansch, Pearl Jam, xPropaganda, Echo & The Bunnymen, and hundreds more.

And of course, we’re super excited to be stocking the latest from Faction Structure! It may not be the most requested title, but at only 50 copies it is DEFINITELY the most limited and also the most local! We’re proud to be supporting our local music scene and look forward to welcoming you in to have a look and a listen! On the day, all RSD titles are first come first served and we cannot reserve anything. Our doors open

at 8am, a couple of hours earlier than a normal Saturday. We will have a queue around the whole square so don’t expect to walk in the door if you turn up at 8! If you’re after an exclusive title your best bet is to get to us as early as you can that morning; some hardcore fans queue right through the night but the bulk of the queue often starts at around 5am... Keep an eye out on our socials and website for a list of what we’re stocking, a list will appear a few days before the event. We’re open all day, so if you can’t be bothered with all the queues and early starts it’s still worth paying us a visit and you never know, there might be something that piques your interest!

Record Store Day has been a major part of what we do for 10 years now, it’s a fantastic event that reminds us that independent record shops are still a relevant and important part of the music community. So if you can, pop in at some point in the day and witness the buzz and atmosphere that only a real record shop experience can give. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing the musical love!

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PAST PPCO RELEASES ON RSD A MINI ANDREAS & THE WOLF RADIO SPECIAL...

The Scratch Homely Crackle 2011

Homely Crackle by The Scratch is a 3 minute blast of psychedelic tinged, power pop, punk, harking back to the halcyon days of the gritty, vibrant, inspiration soaked record stores of yesteryear.

Tangible, tongue in cheek, but loaded with passion, “I really get a buzz from your lick-able fuzz!” it crashes in, builds and is gone, before you get a chance to catch your breath, think Undertones pop, a Damned early 80’s delivery and a Pixies dynamic. B-side ‘Narcotic Hearts’ takes a more glam slant on proceedings with a more than a subtle tinge of early Ants and ‘Groover’ era T.Rex about it. With a pumping bass driven verse and a chorus that could easily have influenced the ‘I don’t care’ sessions by The Boys.

Rough Trade Review

The Tuesdsay Club See You Next Tuesday

St Albans band The Tuesday Club are hosting their very own Real Record Store Day in Hoxton.

By Rosy Moorhead, Watford Observer

The Tuesday Club are taking Record Store Day back to its roots

Record Store Day came into being in 2007, when more than 700 independent stores in America came together to celebrate their unique culture.

The UK followed suit and 2013’s sixth annual celebration will see musicians join forces with the record shops to celebrate with special vinyl and CD releases made exclusively for the day, and hundreds of artists and DJs up and down the country putting on special performances instore. It’s supposed to be a sort of modern-day punk ethos event. But is it? St Albansbased eight-piece band The Tuesday Club think it’s anything but. Vocalist Andreas Vanderbraindrain believes the day has come a long way from its free-spirited, punk roots.

“We’ve all played Record Store Day with previous bands we’ve been in,“ he explains. “It was always about the little band and the independent retailers, but as time has gone on it seems that the big companies have muscled in – they’ve seen there’s money to be made, so now you get Suede appearing in the stores and special releases of Coldplay’s live sessions in green or yellow vinyl. The initial idea has been squeezed out.“

So The Tuesday Club have decided to reclaim Record Store Day for ‘DIY’ bands like themselves and are hosting Real Record Store Day in a florist’s shop in Hoxton, where true music fans will be able to bag one of 100 signed copies of the band’s white vinyl debut album, See You Next Tuesday, and sample branded Tuesday Club tea and cakes, served by members of the band. They and DJ Sonic Medusa will be providing the live entertainment, a podcast will be recorded, a one-off special Sound of the Suburbs magazine will be produced about the day and will be available online, and a number of other special guests will be putting in appearances.

“This is the first vinyl album that we’ve done,“ says Andreas. “We’ve always been a DIY band, releasing our own material and funding it all ourselves, and now that we’re an eight-piece band we’ve been able to fund this vinyl edition.

“You hear the same thing from every band you talk to on the circuit, we’re all doing the DIY thing – we can’t get into the record stores, so we thought we’d do it ourselves, let’s do something different.“

The Tuesday Club recorded the album at Hackney Road Studios, directly below the Rebecca Louise Law florist shop in Hoxton where Rebecca was kind enough to donate her shop to the cause for the day.

“The bottom line is to sell some white vinyl to enthusiasts and fund our next release,“ says Andreas, “but, bigger than that, we’d like this thing to grow, do a tour of more unconventional places.

“This is a chance to see how music used to be done. And hopefully we’ll inspire a new generation of musicians – if you can play three chords, get up there and play them! It’s the punk ethic.“

Real Record Store Day is at Rebecca Louise Law Floral Artist, Hackney Road, Hoxton on Saturday, April 20 from 12noon to 6pm. Details: www.thisisthetuesdayclub.co.uk

"It was always about the little band and the independent retailers, but as time has gone on it seems that the big companies have muscled in, they've seen there's money to be made, so now you get Suede appearing in the stores and special releases of Coldplay's live sessions in green or yellow vinyl. The initial idea has been squeezed out."

The Definitive Review

The Tuesdsay Club See You Next Tuesday - 2013

A slight departure from the usual stuff found here – was asked by those lovely people the Tuesday Club to rustle together something – i think the exact remit was a track by track commentary – of their forthcoming debut full length ‘see you next Tuesday’ which young folk with decent musical taste is due out on Record Store Day 2013 and will include a kind of social club gazette insert whereupon these etchings may or may not be found – i’m guessing not given they’ve gone all quiet on us……in case you need links and you do they came be found at –http://thisisthetuesdayclub.tumblr.com/ – resist purchasing naff represses by money grabbing bastards jumping on the RSD band wagon and buy this blighter and make them rich…….better than the Adam Ant album……

Welcome weary record store day patron. In your hands you hold a prized copy of the debuting long playing platter by the Tuesday Club, a multi talented pop combo (I get paid the princely sum of one pound sterling each time I say something nice about the band so read on for fond plaudits galore) who you may have occasioned upon playing at your local Darby and Joan social club – yes that was them just before the bingo and sandwiched between the parking announcement and the unsightly tete a tete between Charlene and Debs offering some impromptu entertainment for the attending masses in a three round scratching and screeching scrunchie shredding slap down.

The Tuesday Club used to be known as the Scratch who had a fair old habit of decorating listening spaces in all manner of addictively spruced up hook heavy day-glo punk pop that sound wise sat prettily between the Small Faces, Buzzcocks and the Flamin Groovies in a button badge swapping queue. Now on a sabbatical said band have grown in size enlisting friends and passers by – the latter by a quaint old method known as press ganging – and go by such names as the minx, glabrous fabulous, jerry berry (obviously not his real name), tittybar telski, andreas

vanderbraindrain, wasabi penis, beautiful wolf and j-rod. The object you have in your hand is one of a small limited pressing of three hundred copies of their debut album titled ‘see you next Tuesday‘. You now have one and I have one which means there are just 298 left. Please treat gently and look after said artefact as though it were your prized pet however do not stroke (people are watching) and do not feed or water as contrary to populist belief as with costly discs or CD’s as they are better known, they do not take kindly to being spread in jam or watered.

Now for those of you whose venture today into your local record emporium was their first (how was it for you), then a few do’s and don’ts. What you have in your hand is a vinyl album (also commonly known as wax, platter and indeed record). This cannot be played on your I-pod or for that matter on any other mp3 playing device – and no it isn‘t an oversized CD. It is not to be worn on the head, neither is it to be used as a Frisbee (though occasions have arisen in the past where we have used said items as such however the onset of CD‘s has proven a boon in my discus thowing prowess especially ones coming glued to the front of certain monthly music magazines – no names no pack drill – ahem – Q), a tray either of the cups and plates carrying kind or of the ash variety (though on a personal note I did once occasion in turning my mate Tommy’s prized signed copies of Bay City Rollers platters into variously assorted misshapen animal crafts, a trumpet and even a dainty little bowl which was handy as we did all this while he hotfooted to the kitchen in search of savoury nibbles – sleeves are slightly more problematic but rest assured being a whiz at oragami I’m sure we can rustle up an instruction pamphlet – as a point of reference we found in protracted studies of Tommy’s record collection that anything by the Osmonds where ideal for cannibalising into arty objects. You can find such items loitering in flea markets, house clearances, thrift shops

aplenty in exchange for mere trifling change and of course your uncle Neville‘s record collection.

So tasty toon seeking traveller what, I bet your wondering, have you got for your hard earned dosheroonies. Well as it happens the band have asked your dear old scribe to give you a – so to speak – flavour of what to expect by doing a super duper track by track guide. Yes I know what your thinking obviously those Lamacq, Radcliffe and Laverne types were all busy doing fab things like hobnobbing with the stars, going to award ceremonies or else generally unable to leave their exclusive pads for the mountains of fan mail blocking their escape route. Mind you holding our prized collection illegally taped ‘hit the north’ cassettes to ransom did kind of swing things and focus our minds a tad.

In short (and by way of looking through the P window) a fourteen track pop popsicle that playfully pukes, pogos, purrs, powers, preens, pouts, pows and prangs prettily upon your portable platter playing dansette unto which you‘ll hear……..

‘Dolly Dynamite’ – a stutter sprayed faux Bruce Forsything romp around a 50’s teen dreamed ballroom and succumbed to a becoming at the hop boog-a-loo bubble grooved in Cockney Rebel-esque shimmies with Rocky Sharpe and the Replays.

‘Ain’t got no Class’ – strut riddled glam pouting cool heavily scented in the freakish aroma of Rocky Horror Show’s ‘time warp’ albeit as though skadadled by a ballroom blitzed out meeting of Dr Feelgood types lamping seven kinds out of a prime era Roxy Music.

‘money means nothing’ – darker in intent and straying out of a classic ‘kings’ era Ants haze to shed its skin and psychosis to blossom into a knowing off centred nugget much like a primally pristine Brand Violet.

‘nananana’ – banana splits in head on collision with toy dolls do annoyingly daft and addictive speed freaking three chord romp – need I say more.

‘she splayed my teeth’ – a love crushed dandified dayglo dizzy ditty time travelled from a 1978 edition of Top of the Pops with Motors and Buzzcock-ian squaring up to each other for main attraction dues.

‘new regime (slow swing)’ – ready for some mellow mood muzak dipped in all manner of goonery, smoky jazz swing wonkiness with farm yard animal sounds galore – I kid ye not

‘replication and montage’ – scuzzily prowling lo-fi post new wave groove gouges and twinkling keys purred to a driving motorik motifs done on a slow cooking ‘dirk wears white sox’ backburner.

‘all you do is wow’ – our favourite thing here by a cats whisker – sci-fi twang transmissions cosmically rolled in space dust and flavoured with noodling 60’s spy thematic sounds from the vaults of TV21, astute radars will swoon to its astral array of meek meets man or astro man meets captain scarlet motifs.

‘new glamour’ – demented finger jabbing bad boy sea sawing precariously on a new wave framing cut to a disturbing stop start scowl as though a Dury fronted Stranglers applying playful psychosis.

‘wish my slate was cleaner’ – a dot joining agit pop-a-

dillo drawing together the rezillos and buzzcocks.

‘’vinyl is a manifesto’ – mooching melodica, a stoned out Roxy caught rummaging through New York Dolls medicine bag and a rabid sonic rupturing that veers to its groove end assuming critical meltdown

Play loud……and at 33rpm…….

The Man in Grey has left the building…..

Reverse Family Songs About Life Mid Crisis - 2017

‘My songs about life mid crisis’ is shortly set for record counter action via perfect pop co-op – incidentally catalogue number PPCO50. In short here be fourteen tracks staring out of the late 70’s for all the world sounding as though they’ve been rifling through the best bits of your well-worn stash of prized 7 inch platters from back in the day whilst junking the bad ‘uns and then wiring copious amounts of angular riffage along with the applying of oodles of prickly pristine pop make up, the daubing of a fair amount off tongue in cheek candidness and then the dipping of the bugger in dayglo dye – which all adds up to – voila – a new wave party pack that sounds as though its torn its way from a vintage early issue of Smash Hits or Superpop. Where the Scratch wore their Buzzcocks /

Magazine affections like badges of honour, reverse family though grazing similar sonic fields appear more content in hooking their spike topped new wave communal tent to the likes of Wreckless Eric, Captain Sensible (see the gloriously dishevelled ‘alcopoppers on fast food’ which impishly comes wired upon a killer Beefheart / Fall coda unless i’m very much mistaken – and i’m not), Jona Lewie, Vic Goddard, the Leyton Buzzards and of course Adam Ant whose influence is clearly about this collection like a rash. Add to the mixture an impish kookily crooked pop dynamic that absorbs elements of glam and the bubble grooved echoes of an at times 50’s teen buzz (refer yourselves to WIREd out ‘plastic punks’) and you have a collection of cuts which from the power popped pub rocking zigginess of ‘business or pleasure’ to the previously mentioned here a while back ‘way it goes’ with its schizoid club rumbling cool – think Gary Wilson rewiring Robin Scott’s M – a set that fizzes, pops and crackles with a retro electricity. Elsewhere the dub doused ‘I sense their watching eyes’ under certain conditions wouldn’t look to far out of place on one of six sides of ‘Sandinista’ where it not for the fact that it’s waywardly cut in the likeness of Klark Kent which before the letters of concern start flying in – and they will believe you me – is no bad thing. ‘electronic 6’ is just, well quite frankly – pure classic era weird earness from Landscape while those with a thing for spaghetti western grandstanding with hints of Marco’s post Ants Wolfhound grooves might do well to amble over to the cool arrest of the bruising wound licking ‘higher power’. Elsewhere ‘hand of god’ side 2’s opening salvo is cut as a floor rumbling funk struck mirror ball very much channelling heavy on a Gary Wilson influence while distant echoes of ‘dirk wears white sox’s’ lacerates the grooves of the parting shot ‘odd mix newgabes’.

Listen

Faction Structure Buyin’ Into Fantasy - 2022

Buyin’ Into Fantasy - a record which caught assumptions unaware, took them to fresh and stimulating acceptance searching places yet all the while left us greedily devouring all within its vinyl brought walls.

How to describe the project’s sound? Old wave disco-rock has been used but truly it is a boldly individual amalgam of flavours past, present and newly imagined. It is art pop, post punk, experimental punk, avant-new wave… the list could continue but what emerges is a character of invention and breath of sound purely Faction Structure.

The Faction Structure moniker comes from a David Bowie interview for Mojo Magazine in 2002 about his hugely influential Diamond Dogs LP, a quote reflecting an apocalyptic breath within the world at the time which remains so apt in a time that Buyin’ Into Fantasy now explores and there is a definite Bowie essence to the album’s title track.

It is a compelling end to a record which gripped ears and imagination like no other this year. Though not pandemic inspired it does echo the aspects of darkness and dispute all have felt but primarily it is an echo of the world before and around it through knowing intimacy. More so it is an adventure of sound and enterprise which got under the skin in no time and left us greedy for the pleasure sparked and despite all the hints we gave in artist comparisons it is truly one unique and especial exploration.

Ringmaster Review

Faction Structure Circles - 2023

This is not an album to listen to whilst doing the housework or while you are on the school run. It requires your attention. You need to listen and invest in ‘Circles’ and if you do you’ll get your perks - you put the effort in and you will be rewarded with good melodies and sometimes surreal lyrics that just feel very appropriate for these bizarre times we are living in.

It’s a soundtrack for the disaffected and those who feel they don’t quite fit in with modern society, people who can’t relate to deceitful political charlatans, senseless wars, the erosion of common decency, and the utter fucking boredom of sanitised, safe modern popular culture and music.

‘Circles’ is not some ‘fun’, lightweight pop album, it’s dark, alternative, independent music that flys in the face of popularism with a massive ‘fuck you’. If this review has resonated with you, then maybe you need to obtain a copy of the record-it’s not going to resolve all the World’s problems, but it might make you feel a bit better knowing you are not the only one out there trying to make sense of it all.

Read the rest of the review here on page 24... In the Club BIG M - In The Club Magazine

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Read more and BIG M’s interview with GAND? here: factionstructure.co.uk/gand-interview-in-theclub-magazine-big-ms-mighty-probe/

It will have been a year since the release of Buyin’ Into Fantasy, the debut album from UK outfit FACTION STRUCTURE. Released through Perfect Pop Co-op, it was the first in a five album project created by the mysterious GAND?; an experimental adventure created and cast in the shadows of a world in turmoil.

involving of participation as Brown’s enlivened bass and the vibrant guest tones of Miss Tiggy Pop, both returning again upon No one can stop you.

Before then though, The Face You see On Saturdays bears a Fad Gadget meets early Human League like hue within its electronic shuffle, the eighties seeding the album’s sound often embraces a ripe tempting in the track...

No one can stop you merges electro rock and pop in its contagious and fiery exploits. Like all songs, its challenges and seduces in equal measure, taking ears and imaginations to a place of aberrant enterprise and addictive infectiousness with the following

As its predecessor, Circles is seeded within a world tumult, its tracks written under lockdown and as the first echoing the deep anxieties, paranoias, and apocalyptic foreboding of the moment. Yet as the world continues its course of turbulence within a sense of normality from pandemic freedom, the tracks just as powerfully fit; their lyrical prowess enabling certain observation and musing of the now.

The album opens with its title track, Circles sauntering in on an electronic swing which soon had ears and hips involved. It is a controlled yet eager coaxing to which GAND? adds his familiar tones and individual lyrical weaving, the track never breaking into greater energy but relentlessly catchy all the while with its persistent gait driven by the bass of Dan K Brown of THE FIXX. Further veiled vocals skirt GANDS? tones, a vague but magnet flirtation making bolder impact across the album. The new wave jangle of the guitar only adds to the lip smacking enterprise surrounding ears before Skin on Skin launches its animated stroll of temptation and offbeat incitement to further manipulate our keenest attention; its declaration of desire just as

Though only two albums in, the five album cycle that Circles continues feels a journey and adventure of sound which will persistently spring surprising propositions and surprising reactions, and taking FACTION STRUCTURE’S new album as a thick marker, rich pleasure.

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Though only two albums in, the five album cycle that Circles continues feels a journey and adventure of sound which will persistently spring surprising propositions and surprising reactions, and taking FACTION STRUCTURE'S new album as a thick marker, rich pleasure.

Circles follows in the same vein, weaving its examinations and contemplations in an array of styles ranging from post punk, art pop, electro pop, Avant-new wave, experimental punk.

Dependency similarly cunning and inviting in that two pronged incitement. There is an obsessive quality to the song too which just gripped ears, the alignment of a Josef K'esque jangle and Swell Maps like mania riveting.

"Its mutant disco inclinations immediately dancing with instincts as punk hued aspects add to the growing adventure."

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GIG!!! 8pm

The Perfect Pop Co-Op are very excited to announce on behalf of Narcotic Hearts, the bands Horn debut and it’s a cracker! A support to John Peel faves The Woodentops on Thursday

1st June. The Narcs have a revamped set and sound can’t wait to get it on! Get your tickets directly from the band or from here: info@perfectpopco-op.co.uk or The Horn (and use code NARC23 when booking).

And finally.......

As you know we are always supportive of other people who get off their bums and put stuff on... One such hero of the PPCO is the mighty Hug(h)e Davenport, who also goes as Monty! We’ve been chums with Hug(h)e for well over 15 years and indeed Andreas & The Wolf had him as a guest on their 2022 Christmas Radio Show, so you know the calibre of man we are talking about... Anyway, following a couple of years in semi Rock’n’Roll retirement, the great man is back with a new show on 3Bs Radio. It goes out on a Tuesday between 7pm and 9pm and if you click the to the right next week, you’ll be magiked there by us... Good luck to Hug(h)e great to have you back and see you soon for a PPCO Hijack!

A message from the man himself!

I’m looking for new music & unsigned local bands (Northampton, Brackley, Bicester, Buckingham, Milton Keynes) to feature on my newly launched radio show (“Above the Garage”, 3bsradio.co.uk ). Mainly indie, folk, folk-rock, Americana. Please contact me here or at MontyDavenport@outlook.com