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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · 22h

Six months ago, I released ‘Swept Away’. Thanks so much to everyone who’s listened to the songs!

Rosy Overdrive called it “delicately beautiful” and Janglepophub said it’s “indie-pop brilliance”. 😀

Please have a listen on Spotify or Bandcamp:
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com/album/swept-...

#indiepop

Swept Away, by Sunny Intervals

14 track album

sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · 1d

Looks fantastic! 😀

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 1d

What's this gingerly loping into view? Looks a bit like issue 3 to me.

An unfinished draft cover of issue 3 of my IN THE APRIL SUN fanzine.

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much for including Sunny Intervals on this excellent podcast! 😀

Afterglow Echoplex Podcast @afterglowechoplex.bsky.social · 5d

This fall, enjoy the warm spicy glow of The Green Goblin’s Pumpkin Bomb Lattes!

The latest episode of the Afterglow Echoplex #shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent podcast features 15 fallen leaf colours by Cloud Studies, Dead Adventures, Clockwork Animals, A Violet In Youth, Sunny Intervals, and more!

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · 8d

It's #bandcampFriday so I've knocked £2 off the price of each of my IN THE APRIL SUN fanzines. You can get both for £3.50 today.

assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...
and
assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

Lots of great stuff, reviews, contributions, essays and diaries. New issue coming soon!

In The April Sun (Assistant Fanzine #1) from Assistant

assistant.bandcamp.com

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · 13d

This is sounding great, love it! 😀

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Goodbye Wudaokou @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hi friends, nervously delighted to release my new album today via the wonderful @subjangle.bsky.social sincerely appreciate you lending it your ears (and anyone who wants to repost) lots of love💜 💿
goodbyewudaokou.bandcamp.com/album/anythi...
#janglepop #dreampop #indie #indiepop #altrock #musicsky

Goodbye Wudaokou Anything Of Us (CD album) front cover.

Goodbye Wudaokou - Anything Of Us (CD album) back cover.

Goodbye Wudaokou - Anything Of Us (CD album) CD art

Goodbye Wudaokou- Anything Of Us (Inner sleeve art)

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · Aug 10

Can confirm that One Last Day Of The Holidays by @sunnyintervals.bsky.social sounds super fab driving through a forest in the Dordogne.

“Unstructured time can stretch so fast, it’s so underrated, perfectly orchestrated”

sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com/track/one-la...

One Last Day Of The Holidays, by Sunny Intervals

from the album Swept Away

sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Aug 10

Ah, thank you!

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ah, so sorry, it sold out so quickly! Fingers crossed something comes up for you on the waiting list. Yes, hopefully I’ll do some other shows at some point.

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Aug 8

Yes, it’s lovely there, really looking forward to this!

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M a r i a n t h i @rainforatime.bsky.social · Aug 8

We're celebrating 15 years since the debut @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social album and 17 since their first ever UK show, at the Betsey Trotwood, with @pinkopaque.co.uk, All Ashore! and @sunnyintervals.bsky.social

🗓️ Sun 17 Nov 2025
📍 The Betsey Trotwood, London EC1
🎟️ wegottickets.com/event/672445

Poster announcing the gig of THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, PINK OPAQUE, ALL ASHORE! and SUNNY INTERVALS on Sunday 23 November at the Betsey Trotwood. The graphics show a pink cat with lightning bolts coming out of its eyes and a thought bubble saying "side ponytail forever"

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m playing at the Betsey Trotwood in London on Sunday 23 November!

It’s a really fantastic line up, with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Pink Opaque and All Ashore! - there’s a ticket link below and it would be wonderful to see you there 😀
#indiepop #popshow

wegottickets.com/event/672445

Flyer for the show on 23 November at the Betsey Trotwood in London.

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thanks very much to @elevenpopsongs.bsky.social for including Sunny Intervals on this excellent 2025 playlist! 😀

eleven pop songs @elevenpopsongs.bsky.social · Aug 3

July is done, and our eleven pop songs 2025 Spotify playlist has grown again — packed with last month's favorite tracks! As always: indie, handpicked, and hopefully a few surprises for your ears. Check it out here 👇!

eleven pop songs 2025

Playlist · Gernot Richter · 571 items · 55 saves

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · Jul 29

Putting out the call…. I am now working on a third issue of In The April Sun and making progress. Please tell me if you would like to contribute something or have an idea, or a suggestion for a review. Do you have something in the works that I might be interested in?

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jul 8

Ah, thank you!

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks so much to everyone who’s listened to this new song so far! Please pop over and listen (links below) if you haven’t already 😀

Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today I’m releasing a disco remix of the song Electromagnetic from my recent album.

Please pop over to Bandcamp or Spotify to have a listen and add it to playlists etc - thank you!

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3H5L9A...

Bandcamp:
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com/track/electr...

#indiepop

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thanks so much for including Sunny Intervals on this 😀

@theretweeter @theretweeter.bsky.social · Jul 6

happy sunday. is ur song next? LETS GET UR MUSIC HEARD!! tune in to hear great tracks on 24/7 rotation zeno.fm/radio/featuredartists/ ft'ing
@volkermilch.bsky.social
@attawalpa.bsky.social
@worldwithouthumans.bsky.social
@jacobt80.bsky.social
@sunnyintervals.bsky.social
revolut.me/theretweeter

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today I’m releasing a disco remix of the song Electromagnetic from my recent album.

Please pop over to Bandcamp or Spotify to have a listen and add it to playlists etc - thank you!

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3H5L9A...

Bandcamp:
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com/track/electr...

#indiepop

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · Jul 3

Five years since we released IN THE APRIL SUN, our affectionate and hopeful lockdown/reunion record. FIVE YEARS of life-changing weird magic.

Shout if you want a free download. If you have it, feel free to give it another play.
assistant.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

The front cover of Assistant's ropey, charming, lovelorn 2020 LP In The April Sun, which is five years old today.

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’m releasing a new single on Friday. It’s an upbeat remix of one of the songs on my new album.

Please follow me on Bandcamp or Spotify and it will pop up in your new releases on Friday!

Bandcamp:
sunnyintervals.bandcamp.com

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/artist/2LHd8...

#indiepop

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · Jun 22

My review of Sunny Intervals’ brilliant indie-pop, for Louder Than War:

“Sounds like a classic to my ears … Hudson can’t help but populate his songs with details – he has the songwriter’s equivalent of a photographic memory, decorating his songs with vivid visual clues”

Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jun 19

ICYMI… here’s a really lovely review of my new album on @louderthanwar.bsky.social:

louderthanwar.com/sunny-interv...

With many thanks again to Jonathan from @assistant.bandcamp.com 😀

Sunny Intervals: Swept Away - Album Review

Sunny Intervals release Swept Away, a selection of imaginary, lo-fi, indiepop songs from London. Reviewed by Jonathan Shipley

louderthanwar.com

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Sunny Intervals @sunnyintervals.bsky.social · Jun 19

ICYMI… here’s a really lovely review of my new album on @louderthanwar.bsky.social:

louderthanwar.com/sunny-interv...

With many thanks again to Jonathan from @assistant.bandcamp.com 😀

Sunny Intervals: Swept Away - Album Review

Sunny Intervals release Swept Away, a selection of imaginary, lo-fi, indiepop songs from London. Reviewed by Jonathan Shipley

louderthanwar.com

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · Jun 17

Here's a chunk of my newly-written @sunnyintervals.bsky.social review on Louder Than War; composed after a run of careful listens. It's a remarkable, very enjoyable, very literate LP - surely one of the best of the year.

Full review here: louderthanwar.com/sunny-interv...

An extract from my Sunny Intervals review for Louder Than War. It starts:

"How careful and musical the arrangements are on this record. Hudson’s palette is constructed from a sparsely chosen range of textures; rhythmic guitar picking, twinkling pianos, bursts of orchestral detail and the occasionally tinny beat. I’m reminded most of Darren Hayman, Kings of Convenience and Blur, but frequently the songs spiral into a fragile, delirious stomp which most recalls the ecstatic sweep of Motown or Northern Soul, or in the case of showstoppers The Blink of An Eye and Draw The Curtains, Paul Weller’s Style Council-era blue eyed soul balladry.

Much of Swept Away concerns melancholy moments of isolation and corresponding instances of longing for belonging. Summer Draws In and Lost and Found are both fretfully preoccupied with impermanence, where both a glorious summer and a new romance are haunted by the inevitability of their ending: “Vacation romances and summer encounters / doused like the charcoals on barbecue sets”. On ‘Waiting for Sunshine’ “the tide comes in so fast but then it just rolls slowly out”. Everything changes, nothing is certain: “I don’t know how the story ends / I don’t know if the arc is going to break / or just bend”."

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Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com · Jun 16

Delighted to have written about the wonderful new @sunnyintervals.bsky.social LP for Louder Than War!

louderthanwar.com @louderthanwar.bsky.social · Jun 16

@sunnyintervals.bsky.social release Swept Away, a selection of imaginary, lo-fi, indiepop songs from London

Jonathan of @assistant.bandcamp.com reviews for LTW

@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social
@nigelcarruk.bsky.social

louderthanwar.com/sunny-interv...

Sunny Intervals: Swept Away - Album Review

Sunny Intervals release Swept Away, a selction of imaginary, lo-fi, indiepop songs from London. Reviewed by Jonathan Shipley

louderthanwar.com

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