Guitar Pop For Now People—Part 35

10 Recent Tracks + Music Reviewers/Publications (+ Playlist)

Dec 20, 2025

It’s almost a new year, but 2025 is still delivering great new guitar pop.

That includes a brand new holiday track from Kate Clover, one of my favorite LA-based artists. This one arrives just a week before Christmas Day and it’s definitely destined for the naughty list.

So, bookmark those “Best of 2025” lists for later.

At least until you give these 10 songs a spin, click the reviewer links, and check out our comprehensive Spotify and YouTube playlists. If you like what you hear or have other recent songs to recommend, join the conversation in the comments.

Thanks for a great year at Remember The Lightning!

⚡️ What are a few of your favorite tracks below? 💥

10 Recent Tracks and Music Reviewers/Publications

“The album rides on riff crunching guitars and an obvious love for classic power pop sounds, as ‘I’ll Be There’ channels early Beatles energy. The further we go, the fuzzier we get too. ‘Open Your Eyes’ and ‘Flippin’ Stomp’ have DNA in the late sixties beat movement.”—Aaron Kupferberg, Powerpopaholic

“It’s songs like the alt-rock power ballad ‘She’s Always on My Mind,’ the light-on-its-feet ‘About Me,’ and the slow-burn ‘About Dying (Hannah)’ that showcase a wider (and probably more accurate) picture of the band…”—Rosy Overdrive

“One minute we’re all motor city hip-shaking on ‘Love Connection,’ the next we’re breezing through California to a Carpenters-like beach destination with ‘California Road Trip.’”—Dennis Pilon, Poprock Record

“‘We Could Be Yours’ introduces a Buzzcocks-style guitar whirr, blending it with a modern power-pop essence.”—Janglepop Hub

“The Boojums’ charms should be obvious to anyone who enjoys meat-and-potatoes power pop. The melodies are extremely hummable and the musicianship is sturdy but not ostentatious. It’s the kind of stuff that couldn’t be less trendy in 2025, but therein lies the charm.”—Christian Finnegan, New Music For Olds

“It might be fun to guess which of these songs (if any) got the closest to being properly recorded. I’m quite fond of ‘A Leg to Stand On,’ which is jangly and rainy-day melancholy in that distinctive Matt Speedway manner.”—Faster & Louder

“Psychology is a wonderful statement of the joy of the guitar and the chorus. It is also an album that is all over the place, magnificently so. The variety is endless from Angular to Brit Pop via Psych and Pop Rock. It is a splendid listen.”—Don Valentine, I Don’t Hear A Single

“As I said before, The High Span are: Twee. Odd. Tweedy. English. Pop. Literate. Polite…. and wonderfully anti-rock’n’roll. On this new platter-that-matters… The songs range lyrically from weird recurring dreams (‘Ambrosine’), to the anarchist scares of late 19th-century Paris (‘Superintendent Baeker’).”—Ged Babey, Louder Than War

“Just when you think Sean Turner is finally slowing down, new work from The Photocopies pops up in our mailbox. With Counterintuition, he adds ten new songs to his already impressive discography (plus eight equally enjoyable bonus tracks, for those still unconvinced by his unbridled productivity).”—Add To Wantlist

“If listeners find themselves disoriented in time and place, that is by design. Sharp Pins’ most recognizable feature is their chameleon-like approach.”—Patrick Gill, PopMatters

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