The Cords are a new indiepop duo from Scotland, comprising sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi. They started playing drums when they were little kids. They found that they liked 80s and 90s indie music more than their peers did, and so formed a band, just the two of them, with Grace on drums and Eva on guitar – and the songs started to flow. With only a cassette and a flexi single (Bo’s New Haircut / Rather Not Stay) released so far (both of which sold out in a matter of hours), Eva and Grace honed their skills by playing a whole series of gigs with some of the biggest names in Scottish pop.  Their first show was with The Vaselines, and since then they have played with Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, BMX Bandits and others, while also sharing stages with the new generation of indiepop stars: the Umbrellas, Chime School, Lightheaded. The Cords were invited to record a session for Riley and Coe on 6 Music on the back of their early releases, and have now recorded their eagerly-awaited debut album, which will be co-released by Skep Wax (in the UK and Europe) and Slumberland Records (in America).  Fabulist is out today and it’s the first single taken from the debut album.
Enjoy the sound of Glasgow in the summer!

The Slow Summits are a quartet (from Linköping, Sweden) of more or less fagged out dreamers from Sweden, whose melodic and jangly indie pop is inspired by bands like The Go-Betweens, Orange Juice, Felt, McCarthy, Housemartins, Prefab Sprout and Dexy’s Midnight Runners. “We write songs in the key of midlife crises, that can accompany the pathologies of everyday life. Hopefully the songs can make you smile and nod in recognition, or clench your fist, or even shed a tear. At best, they make you dance like crazy. The lyrics may seem judgmental, sung from the backs of high horses, heckling in a way that would make Statler and Waldorf blush, but the barb is directed at the band members themselves as much as anyone else.” The Band is composed by Anders Nyberg (Vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion), Mattias Holmqvist Larsson (Bass, choir, percussion), Karl Sunnermalm (Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, piano, keyboards, choir vocals) and Fredrik Svensson (Drums). After a wonderful debut e.p. out in 2019, Languid Belles, (on two of the songs Amelia Fletcher does some stunning backing vocals), some jangly pop songs (Safe And Sorry, Not The One, (Just Another) Holy Night and Time’s On Your Side), a 7” single, Budge/ Then Again on the French label Too Good To Be True in 2022, another song, Oh Me Oh My in 2023, and Yore Songs, a compilation album on Subjangle out in May 2025, the band will have Every Intention, its debut album, out tomorrow, 4th of July, again on Subjangle. Today we are excited to share with you Not That Hard, a second single from the album, as an exclusive premiere here on TRISTE©.