New Zealand indie rockers Popstrangers roam around their new home of London in the video for their single “Rats in the Palm Trees”.
After a number of singles on New Zealand’s legendary indie label Flying Nun Records, Popstrangers released their debut LP, Antipodes, through US-based Carpark Records earlier this year, before packing up and moving to London. Antipodes has been heralded as a masterful blend of noise pop, grunge, shoegaze, Britpop, punk, post-hardcore… a bit of C86… a bit of that jangly Dunedin Sound… a bit of everything that you loved about late 80s, early 90s indie rock, really. Hard to pinpoint, quite familiar sounding, yet very much its own thing. And oh-so good!
Recorded in an old lightship on the Thames and released in November, “Rats in the Palm Trees” has a bit more psychedelia, a bit more melodic distortion… ah, here we go again. It’s just a bit more of the things you already love about them.
Antipodes and “Rats in the Palm Trees b/w Fortuna” are available on Carpark Records. You can follow Popstrangers on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.