Zipper lament former friends; board trains in Derbyshire with lots of other bands

In July I will be attending Indietracks for the first time. Starting off as a one-off gig at the West Midland Railway, it’s now grown into a full three-day festival of indiepop goodness. A bunch of Another Form of Relief endorsed bands will be playing, including Pocketbooks, Butcher Boy, Emmy the Great, Camera Obscura, The Smittens and Lucky Soul. Given that the full lineup isn’t even announced yet, it’s going to be one hell of a weekend.

There are also a bunch of bands on the bill that I haven’t heard of previously, and so between now and then, I’m going to be exploring some of them. This serves a dual purpose: to give me more bands to see at the festival while also finding new things to right about. Starting today with Zipper, who seem to make short, sharp little pop songs covered in distortion. Most of their Myspace page is in Spanish meaning I can’t really tell you a great deal about of them. I can see that they have released material on both Cloudberry Records and WeePOP! though, which is a very good indicator of quality.

Unfortunately I don’t speak Spanish. As such, I have no idea how accurate this information is. However, the band seemingly have an album out right now on Embajada De Liliput. Now there’s a mouthful.