I first heard the gritty, lo-fi and under-produced Brown Brogues (facebook/twitter) on a Song, by Toad Podcast (a Toadcast if you will) a good while ago, but they are a band I keep turning back to for the pop-songs that underpin it all. The Manchester two-piece describe themselves as garage/jive-o-tonic and that seems to fit with a sound that feels like it was recorded on a dictaphone in a basement surrounding some catchy-as-fuck pop charm.

Just because this is lo-fi and they’re a two piece doesn’t make this blues though – compare them to The White Stripes at your peril.

Italian Beach Babes are putting out the 7″ release on 27th February