$Juice Pops ** debut album launch ** + Precious Metals \/ YES, Manchester \/ Sat 24 Jan$

We’re delighted to be helping Juice Pops launch their debut album!
After four years of quietly crafting their sound, Manchester’s Juice Pops are ready to make some noise. With their debut album Living Books, the quartet step confidently into their hometown spotlight, launching the record with a special gig at YES Basement.
Since forming in 2018 and releasing their self-titled EP in 2021, Juice Pops have evolved from purveyors of bright, sunshine-pop to something altogether more richly textured. Their brand of upbeat indie rock now sprawls across genres – psychedelia, post-hardcore, garage rock, surf, and power pop all collide in an exuberant mix that feels both nostalgic and modern.
Recent singles have hinted at this broadening vision. The Death of Anne Boleyn drew praise from DJ Tom Robinson as a “lo-fi earworm” and picked up spins on BBC Radio 6, while their touring schedule has seen them fill storied venues like Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club and light up festival stages from coast to coast, including a memorable turn at 2024’s Truck Festival in Oxfordshire.
Living Books channels a restless energy into a set of songs that swing between mania and melancholy, packed with lyrical flights of imagination – cathedrals, time machines, stargazing, and haunted heroines straight from the pages of Tolstoy. Musically, it’s a fever dream of intertwining twin guitars, harmonies and vintage organ swells, balancing moments of lush introspection against sharp, tonally shifting bursts of chaos. BBC Introducing Manchester have already hailed lead single Heavyweight Champion as “that sweet intersection of noise and bliss that makes magic.”
With Living Books, Juice Pops make their most confident statement yet—channelling their creative chaos into a debut alive with imagination and a fearless sense of musical adventure.
Support comes from Precious Metals. Precious Metals formed in Sheffield in 2018. Their beachcombing post-punk riffs, psychedelic keys and earworming alternative pop harmonies have the band surfing somewhere on the Pacific Ocean between 90s Olympia and Connan Mockasin’s tripped-out New Zealand. Their lyrics are inspired by bottled messages found in post-industrial waterways, the social politics of Cold War Germany, Mongolian wildlife – or, in the case of ‘Portholes’, were written entirely by a pair of schoolgirls from Rotherham.
Price: £12.50 adv
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