The Sundays, Camera Obscura, The Housemartins, The Supremes, Felt, Tindersticks, Belle and Sebastian, Simon and Garfunkel, Ooberman, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Carpenters, Delgados, Nick Drake, The Pastels, The Go! Team, Orange Juice, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub, The Magnetic Fields, Hefner, The Beach Boys, The Pipettes, The Ronettes, and many other bands from pop, indiepop, northern soul and Motown to much more...
Sounds Like
"Sweet pop gems" Plan B magazine
"Love 'Cross The Line'. It's pure snowshaker pop, and more dressing-table than kitchen sink." Simon Armitage
"Some of the finest songwriters in indiepop today" Skatterbrain
"Spring ushering tingle some guitars, softly shy eyed lilting melodies and hopelessly lovelorn boy / girl harmonies - how could we resist. " Losing Today magazine
"Memorable for all the right reasons, their blend of summer feel good melodic riffs and sweeping choruses were certainly infectious..." Efestivals
"Everything about Pocketbooks is perfect, from the obvious world-weariness to the pretty, pretty music, to Emma Hall’s voice." Tasty Fanzine
"Pocketbooks are the best kept secret of the thriving London indiepop scene right now." Indie MP3
"...giddy timeless bedroom dramas... a hunger and cloistered dreams are all theirs. Glorious majesty, given time." Planet Sound, C4 Teletext
"If you love melodies and infectiously catchy tunes then this is your album." Russell's Reviews
"Spritely piano, spiraling guitar and semi-operatic diary entries; a twenty-four carat toe-tapper" Coke Machine Glow
"Precious sounding songs about the simple things, sung in an incredibly earnest way. There's also a great little knack for pop culture references here too." Another Form Of Relief
"A stream of hummable, always likeable stories, bubbling with lyrical imagination, rippling with a determination to encompass all of London life into a series of vignettes." In Love With These Times, In Spite Of These Times
"They’re Indie. With a capital ‘aaah!’ This debut shows great things possible - if a slight breeze doesn’t blow them away." Die Shellsuit Die
Pocketbooks are a pop band from London, combining melodic boy/girl harmonies, spiralling guitars and delicate piano lines. Expect a sprinkling of dazzling 60s soul alongside some sparkling indiepop charm!
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Flight Paths: our debut album, released 13 July 2009
Our debut album, Flight Paths, is available now on the How Does It Feel To Be Loved? label.
It's also been released by Happy Prince Records in Japan and Universal Records in the Philippines.
It's available on CD from all the best record shops, and you can also pick up the CD or MP3s from a host of online distributors, including iTunes, Amazon, HMV, Play.com etc.
1. Footsteps
2. Fleeting Moments
3. Camera Angles
4. The Outskirts Of Town
5. Cross The Line
6. Skating On Thin Ice
7. Sweetness And Light
8. I'm Not Going Out
9. Every Good Time We Ever Had
10. Paper Aeroplanes
11. All We Do Is Rush Around
----------------------------------------------------------------- Footsteps: our new single, out now!
Our single Footsteps was released on 15 June 2009. The song's taken from our debut album, Flight Paths. Here's the artwork for the single, as designed by our Emma. The photo was provided by Sonja from www.sauerkrautdesign.com
----------------------------------------------------------------- A brief history
We first introduced ourselves to the world by appearing on the 2006 compilation 'The Kids At The Club' (How Does It Feel To Be Loved?) alongside indiepop favourites such as Voxtrot, I'm From Barcelona and Lucky Soul.
Since then, we've played gigs across the country, including headlining the first ever Indietracks event on a 1950s steam railway in Derbyshire in April 2007. This event has now turned into an annual two-day festival each July, which several of the band now help to organise. We’ve also been fortunate enough to play shows with some fantastic bands, including The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Art Brut, Fanfarlo, The Wedding Present, Darren Hayman and Monica Queen.
In 2008 we even hit the summer festivals, including the Rip It Up festival (Sweden), Offset festival, The Mix festival in London, and, of course, a return to the Indietracks festival.
Our debut single, Cross The Line (Atomic Beat Records, 2007) was described by Simon Armitage as “pure snowshaker pop, and more dressing table than kitchen sink”. This was followed by an EP, Waking UP (Make Do And Mend Records, 2008), which Losing Today described as “Spring-ushering tinglesome guitars, softly shy eyed lilting melodies and hopelessly lovelorn boy / girl harmonies.”
Our debut album, Flight Paths, was released on 13 July 2009 on the How Does It Feel To Be Loved? label. This was preceeded by a single, Footsteps, on 15 June. Songs from the album have picked up radio play from Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1), Gideon Coe (BBC 6Music) and John Kennedy (Xfm).
In November 2009, our song Fleeting Moments will appear on the Rough Trade Shops Indiepop 09 compilation.
It was a shame you couldn't play Pic 'n' Mixx this time but hopefully we'll see you there anyway. Pocketbooks fans - they made a mix CD that we're giving away on the night to one very lucky punter. As if you needed another excuse to come!
Just to let you know I will be playing your music Tuesday on my show on www.HGRNJ.org between 12 noon and 3 pm Eastern Time ( 5-8 pm England or 6-9 pm Central Europe Time). I hope you can tune in, if you miss the show you can Check out my Playlist's
Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think!
Hello I just had to stop by and listen to your songs again. They make the day sunny no matter what the forecast. Thank you. Oh a strange coincidence we had a song back in the late 1980's called How Does It Feel To Be Loved. Have a colourful weekend. Pete*
Hi there, I didn't use myspace for months but I wanted to thank you for your Indietracks concert. You were incredibly good and everybody had a fantastic time, especially on this wonderful version of "Falling leaves" (there's a video on youtube to prove it ;) ). Hope you'll be there again next year... and don't hesitate to come and play in Paris, some people wait for you !
Its been selling faster than we expected, and we currently only have around a quarter of our stock left - so we thought we'd better you all know that if you want a copy then now would be a good time to pick one up! If you buy it from the link above then you're buying it direct from us, the label aren't taking a cut - so its a bit like Fair Trade for struggling musicians.
International mail-order is available, just follow the instructions.
Thank you very much, and sorry for making a mess of your profile. If its any kind of consolation, we don't have a MySpace bot, so I'm leaving these comments the old fashioned way. Three -and-a-half thousand of them. My life is so exciting.
