Description:	CD on Art/ Goes/ Pop BACK IN!!
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Art Goes Pop
	Price:	£6.69
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...according to our Brett on 28 October 2008.

I'm not that keen on Popup's style of music to be quite honest, so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage with A Time and A Place on Art/Goes/Pop. They've very Glaswegian, that's for sure. Definite big dollops of Franz Ferdinand's lyrical jauntiness, some of the Delgados sound and the most pronounced accent this side of Glasvegas. Quite what the press release is playing at labelling this 'post-punk' I'm not quite sure, it's certainly of that Postcard sort of lineage but hearing this now your immediate reference points are the more recent exponents of indie way up there in Scotchland. I'm sure they've got something going here because it's easy to tell that they believe in it and there's a bit of life in a lot of the tracks. God, I'm really struggling for something to say here. Worth a go if you like any of the bands I've mentioned though!

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What their label says...

SO MANY BANDS are pronouncing themselves independent these days that when the real DIY deal comes along, they're hard to pick out from the fray. Like Popup, for example. This scruffy Glaswegian quartet – three boys with guitars, one girl with drums – make some of the best melodic post-punk around in Scotland and have been plugging away for years. In that time they've been awarded Single of the Year by XFM and deemed Scotland's Biggest Unsigned Band by the NME. They have played SXSW twice and toured the U.S through Myspace friends, playing back gardens, barbecues, hoedowns and bars. Only now, though, are they bringing out their debut album, a decision that has seen them move back in with their parents and pretty much fund it by themselves.

The album is being co-released by Glasgow's SWG3 Studio Warehouse, an art and performance space that has become the successor to the Chateau, a venue made famous by Franz Ferdinand's early gigs.
It’s at SWG3 that he band are currently working on their second album, and are moving much faster than they did with their first, which was recorded during the course of a long year before gigs, after work and late at night. As a result it's an idiosyncratic and surprising listen, at times pure rock'n'roll, at other times boy-girl harmonies that recall The Delgados or angular, stripped-back punk. They've been described as Arab Strap on happy pills, and the owner of SWG3 says "they are brilliant – sharp, irreverent and deeply Glaswegian".
 
This is largely thanks to Gilhooly's dark lyrics and his thickly accented delivery, putting Popup in the same league as Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad. With song titles such as 'Stagecoach' and 'The First Weekend Of The Smoking Ban,' Gilhooly's grim tales are of bad chat-up lines at bus stops ("We shared a cigarette/Turns out he had Tourettes") and betrayal between conjoined twins. He happily finds ways to make "Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire" rhyme with "indie boys with their pretty hair". Gilhooly says the essence of the band is the music he grew up with: Prince, Deacon Blue, Nirvana and The Fall, though "we're not influenced any more by Aidan Moffat than we are by Bob Dylan".