They're More Than A Number In Your Little Red Book

Pocketbooks
Genre: Indie / Pop / Acoustic
From: London, United Kingdom

This weeks NME has 49 things to make us happy which has had the opposite effect on the Devil seeing as most of them are quite depressing. In which world does Lily Allen doing a treasure hunt constitute something to make me happy. Lily Allen disappearing up her own backside would be worth a smile but a Lily Allen treasure hunt God give me strength.

Number 45 on the NME's list however does tickle the Devil's smile muscles. C86 will be reborn as C09. Yes it's time to break out the cardigan (wearing mine while I type this missive!), rediscover your virginity, dig out those old NHS specs and get in touch with your inner geek. Which makes today's band Pocketbooks perfectly placed to ride the zeitgeist.

As attractive as a day off school in the summer when you were twelve and as sweet as a Mr Whippy, Pocketbooks songs shimmer like a heat haze and sparkle like stars on a hot summer night. With their melodic boy/girl harmonies and guitars set to jangle it's like they've been specially created in an indie pop laboratory by merging the DNA of Belle & Sebastian, The Pastels, The Housemartins and Camera Obscura.

The band, three northerners and two southerners based in London, have a new single 'Footsteps' released via How Does It Feel To Be Loved on June 15th closely followed by the album, 'Flight Paths', to be released in July.

It's happy hour again!

Go Try

MP3 - Pocketbooks - Footsteps
MP3 - Pocketbooks - Dont Stop
MP3 - Pocketbooks - Summertime
If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are published with permission from How Does It Feel To Be Loved so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

Go Visit

Pocketbooks - Myspace // Website

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Pocketbooks
Footsteps