Slaughterhouse 5 - Alban B. Clay

Bit of a reblogg from plenty of swords, but hey this is pretty sweet. Math pop from Denmark, these bring the whole deal, well written tunes, sorted vocals. Not mind blowingly technical, but then again they don't need to be. Defo check these if you haven't already. On bandcamp name the price. Alban B. Clay

Lions - Forgettingism

Couple of new tunes from Knoxville's emo math rockers Lions. As always bringing the emotive math with the pop sense, done spot on too. Released through Emp'r'r Records as a two track tape release.. Also being able to stream there. Forgettingism

Grand Beach - May Long

Awesome trio here, the other band of Alexander Litinsky of A.M. Overcast and if you've checked them out before you'll know to be expecting good things from this group. Up on the bandcamp for free too..  May Long

A.M. Overcast

Latest outing from these and once again some seriously good math pop, honestly some of the best around.. These are great at keeping up the math levels without ever sacrificing the pop sense. If you haven't checked these before you should do. Pellow

Lions - Roosevelt

New Lions! I've been waiting on this one to come out after really enjoying MTNZ. 
This time round the guys have cranked the math up a notch, whilst keeping the emotive feel and pop sense that made the first record sweet. Glad to be like last time, left wanting more tunes. Out on their bandcamp name the price. Roosevelt

Tomorrow, St. Peter - Soft Patterns EP

So these are a Swedish band of five members and they play the math pop sort of things, indie sounding with the emoish type vocals.. think in the vein of ttng but more to the indie end of things. This is their first outing bar the demos and it's nicely done, if you nip over to their bandcamp you can grab this for the price you want. Soft Patterns EP

Nairobi - EP 2

Some pretty catchy as math pop here, combining afrobeat influences, plus the odd well placed synth pieces add to the sound, all topped off with some pretty neat vocals. I think these actually go under the banner of mafrobeat. Anways these guys are a four piece and it's good to hear some more math coming out of my home town, Oxford. Second ep from these lot, first one also well worth a check while your on it. EP 2

Black Dirty - Dirty Water EP

New Jersey based trio released this ep back in May. Some pretty cool tunes in the math rock/math pop vein. Dirty Water.

Fish Tank - Henry

So started a catch up of bands not previously posted, is turning into more of a collection than I first thought.. Will leave you with one more for today though.
This is something back from the beginning of the year. So Fish Tank are a three piece playing out of Kent in the UK. These guys play that math rock indie mixer, something I’m quite likely to term math pop, something I think we do quite well here in the UK and these are no exception. Bringing the right levels of complexity with catchyness and an up beat sound. You can grab this for a price you name over on the bandcamp. Henry.

Girlfriends - Girlfriends

Bit of one man, math pop, polyrythmic goodness from Portland US. Lots of looping going on here, with vocals that go from the arty indie wails to more of the post hardcore style shouts, pretty interesting stuff and catchy. You can grab yourself a copy of this from bandcamp for the price you name..Girlfriends.

Quadrilles - Inuit EP

So here we have a London based four piece that play the math rock with the pop sense for writing catchy songs, you will hear elements of post rock in there too (the interesting type). They released their latest effort, Inuit back in August this year and have it up on bandcamp for name your price, and is very much worth the little trip over there for a check out.

On a side note I hear these guys are interested in playing up in Leeds, and checking out the math seen up there, so maybe if you're from Leeds or nearby go show them some love on facebook or something, get them playing your ways.

Inuit EP, Quadrilles facebook,

New Hips - Split Milk​/​Love Hz - Double A​-​side

Math pop tunes from Manchester. Good blend of the catchy and intricate, some pretty cool synth lines in there, be good to here what these put out for a full length. In the mean time though check out these two tracks that they have on bandcamp for the price you name. New Hips.

Likes Lions - First The Head, Later The Tale

I liked these guys first release, Future Colour that they put out last October, but I have been a bit slow in checking out this their latest release. Likes Lions are a five piece that come from Sheffield UK and play a catchy blend of indie styled math pop, post-rock not super mathy but good tunes none the less. So they dropped this on the 10th of Sep and on this release they seem to have nailed their own sound down more and blend their influences more coherently than the previous release, the trade off being loosing a bit of edginess that was present on the first but hey.. They have this and also their first release up on bandcamp for name your price and both are well worth checking out. Likes Lions.

Albert Shakespeare - Spread And Share What You Can't Bear

Cool Scottish Five piece playing some pretty decent math rock/pop tunes dropped these four tracks back at the start of August yeah good tunes and also up on bandcamp for name your price win. I like it, has pop sensibilities but manages to math it out pretty well in places. Link to the bandcamp.

Q And Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep

So time again for a something a bit older. Band from Washington D.C, first of three albums by these guys and also my favourite. They were a four piece when this came out then went on as a three piece for their other two albums after and developed a more dance edged sound, but on this record we have more of a post hardcore to math pop sound really good, catchy, angular and awesome massive old favourite of mine not sure why it's not been up here sooner. If you're unfortunate enough not to have heard of or listened to this yet, bearing in mind it came out twelve years ago, do it. No kill no beep beep.

Split 7" - Bonjour/Invalids/Nai Harvest/Reno Dakota

Right so had been thinking about doing a post on Invalids and Reno Dakota for a while now, anyway turns out they are both on a four way split put out by Enjoyment Records (who are putting out Lions MNTZ on vinyl soon by the way yes!) with Bonjour and Nai Harvest so I thought what good opportunity to kill some birds with one stone and also check out some bands I hadn't previously listened to. Right so in case you don't know Reno Dakota play some math pop tunes with emo vocals and do it well the guys have put out some pretty catchy tunes to date. Invalids are a awesome math rock band think early maps and atlases inspired sweetness so good. So how how do the other two bands hold out their end of the split? Turns out pretty well, Bonjour give us some pop punk goodness while Nai Harvest play sort of punky emo and have also given a strong tune to the split. Basically real good all round release and well worth the checking out plus it's name your price on bandcamp sweet, you can also get the cool physical there like in the picture.

Weaponess - Oh.

Four piece from Scarborough playing kinda progressive funky math pop stuffs, think this is the first ep by these guys, which they have up on their bandcamp for name your price.. So this came out in June this year and contains some pretty decent jams, cool artwork too. Anyways definitely up for hearing some more tunes by these lot. Go check um out, link to their bandcamp.

Bearfoot Beware - Bass Lane

Pretty cool math pop trio from leeds, second ep from these guys which was released back in April this year. Defo worth checking out, looking forward to hearing what they would do for a full length release some time in the future. They have this and their first ep up on bandcamp for name your price, link here.

So Much Light - Supine/Spellbound

This is Damien Verrett from the Speed of sound in Sea Waters latest solo effort and if you dig them you might like this. As you can imagine there are similarities to the sound, his singing and guitar work would be familiar to you just a bit more pop and acoustic sounding and with lots of extra instrumentation here and there but still retaining some of the mathy sound, is definitely worth a listen though. This came out on the third of August and is up on his bandcamp for name your price, you can also get a physical there too. Link here.