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All My Friends
Theme From All My Friends Get Hung Up
All My Friends Get Hung Up (2007)

Say hello to All My Friends, a UK band with a penchant for quietly charming, jangly guitar pop with a 60s touch. All Music Guide named the band one of their post-Valentine’s Day crushes, and “crush” is exactly the sort of word you want to use with a band like this. “People Like This,” from the band’s MySpace site, has the all-important boy-girl vocals that make twee pop fans swoon, with a bit of swirly organ thrown in to make things interesting. “Theme From All My Friends Get Hung Up,” an instrumental that wouldn’t sound too out of place on an Essex Green record, refers to the band’s as-yet-unreleased album. Actually, the band haven’t released much of anything just yet, though they’ve been putting out cover tracks for a while now under a project they call Pop Explosion. For a while it looked like an EP release via Spanish label Tragadisco Records was in the works, but now it looks like the EP might be shelved in favour of just releasing All My Friends Get Hung Up instead, which already includes all the tracks that were going to be on the EP. Unfortunately this means a bit of a delay, and as a result we’re stuck with MySpace posts for a while yet.

Whatever they decide to put out in the next couple of months, though, it’s worth keeping an eye out for new All My Friends material. The world can never have enough gentle indie pop.

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