![\"\"](\"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gimme5_skepwax.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
With ‘Gimme 5!’<\/a> we take a peek into the collections of artists we admire. The premise is simple: artists WE like share five records THEY love. <\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s be frank: over the past four decades, few names have loomed larger in the indie pop universe than Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey. Anyone who\u2019s even mildly serious about the genre has at least a few of their bands\u2019 influential records on their shelves. It\u2019s an impressive timeline: Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research, Sportique, Tender Trap, Catenary Wires, The Drift, Swansea Sound. And yet, remarkably, they\u2019re showing no signs of slowing down\u2014in fact, they seem more driven than ever.<\/p>\n Last week, they announced a new 7″ with Swansea Sound, featuring the trend-poking song Oasis v Blur<\/em><\/a> on side A (“Five white Northern guys or four white Southern guys?”). Then they also released the amazing single Portland Town<\/em><\/a> with Heavenly (\u201cThere must be folks think the same way as me \/\/ Conformity stinks, creativity’s free\u201d), the first new music under this moniker in 29 years (with a cover version of The Only Ones’ Someone Who Cares<\/em> on the flip). Next month the band will reissue their 1996 Operation Heavenly<\/em><\/a> LP, and a new full-lengther is planned for 2026.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been wanting to ask these charming legends to contribute to our Gimme 5!<\/em> feature for a while, and this new effort felt like a good opportunity.<\/p>\n