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Please auto-enrol for Autocamper here ...

... yeah, auto-enrol (whatever that means). But anyway, having seen three very good gigs from Autocamper in the past few weeks I'm enrolling on my very own blog about this oh-so-happening band. Check 'em out . They're "jangle-pop", or "C86 pop", or er, just pop. Or maybe none of these things. Dunno, really. When I hear the rapid rhythm guitar, groovy bass and jerky drumming on a song like Dogsitting I'm put in mind of 80s indie (mini-) heroes Mighty Mighty or (maxi-) heroes the Wedding Present. And then there are conceivably echoes of the Weather Prophets, or - indie fanfare - of Orange Juice and even - maybe, maybe not - Echo & The Bunnymen. Or most likely I'm imagining all these associations? I guess it doesn't overly matter. Autocamper are not one-dimensional anyway. They do slow stuff and fast stuff, music that sounds like pop music but is possibly too intricate/complex to really be pop music. Anyway, a few things I like: the drag...

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