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Montage Populaire hail from Southampton, UK. The five-piece create crowded and crisp experimental-pop music.

The band’s sound and manifesto is influenced by the cut and paste production/song-writing style of the Fiery Furnaces and Of Montreal, the sample-littered soundscapes of Broadcast, Stereolab and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the songwriting of The Smiths, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground and so on…

Reject Reinstall is taken from their debut EP Not All Bombs Explode, out March 19th. The album was being recorded in their own studio and co-produced by Iain Gore (Mystery Jets, Babyshambles, Glasvegas).

Montage Populaire @ Bandcamp, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Soundcloud
Source: Weekly Tape Deck, Qthemusic

Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff make up the Los Angeles based band Hands. Originally a two-piece from Philadelphia, Geoffrey and Ryan moved west and the band has been making music as a quartet ever since.

They mix a wide array of influences into their music while relying on strong compositions and interesting arrangements to express their ideas with a pop sensibility hard to ignore.

Warm Night Home is taken from their EP Massive Context, out on April 10.

Hands @ Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Soundcloud
Source: South By Southwest, Converse