Well, If there’s a more beautiful slice of indie pop released this year, we’ll eat our ill-fitting cardigans. With Caroline of Brunswick Square, The Perfect English Weather return after a five-year absence with a single so effortlessly elegant, it feels like they were never away. There’s a warmth to the track, an ease in its gently jangling guitars, and a chorus so sublime it could make lesser bands weep with envy. Yet, beneath its swinging sixties charm, there’s an undercurrent of wistful melancholy—perhaps nostalgia, but not quite. Simon and Wendy Pickles (of The Popguns) craft something that feels both timeless and immediate, with crystalline vocals that glide over pristine instrumentation. It’s a song that demands repeat listens, not just for its melody but for the emotion it so effortlessly carries. And with Just Beyond The Lights arriving this spring, it’s a tantalizing glimpse of what’s to come. —Backseat Mafia

 

The Perfect English Weather are a husband and wife duo from Brighton, England, whose musical journey began in the late 1980s as part of the indie-chart irregulars The Popguns. Perched on a melodic precipice at the lovelorn edges of indie-dom, their “beautiful, slightly melancholic pop” has drawn comparisons to Everything But The Girl, The Sundays and more recently St Etienne, and this ‘Caroline From Brunswick Square’ from their forthcoming ‘Just Beyond The Lights’ album (out later in the year on Matinée Recordings) continues their legacy of brilliantly smooth and considered jangly indie-pop. —Janglepophub