wednesday wake up call

New Pop. 1280 video (directed by Jacqueline Castel) for the track "Bodies in the Dunes".



"Bodies in the Dunes" is off of The Horror, one of my favourite records of the year so far!

saturday wake up call

Pop. 1280 performs "Dead Hand" live @ Viva Radio:



"Dead Hand" is off of Pop. 1280's great debut, The Horror, out now via Sacred Bones Records.

pop. 1280: the horror

Out of the two dozen records I've heard in this young year so far, Pop. 1280's debut, The Horror is the one that stands out for me. Pop. 1280 plays a very atmospheric type of music—not dreamy and calming atmospheric like Grouper, but rather the opposite. Pop. 1280's The Horror is moody like a nightmare-ish soundtrack, think David Lynch's Lost Highway. The finest moments come from "Nature Boy", "Bodies in the Dunes" and "West World"—those are dark, sinister and chaotic noisy tracks... they add to the fascinatingly unique experience of The Horror! If you ever wonder what a louder and faster version of Suicide + Joy Division would sound like, this is it.




Here's an older version, from Pop. 1280's The Grid EP



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