The Cords are a bright new indiepop band from Scotland. Comprising sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi, they started playing drums when they were little kids. They found that they liked 80s and 90s indie music more than their peers did, and so formed a band, just the two of them, with Grace on drums and Eva on guitar – and the songs started to flow.
Their debut album out this year is a delight.‘Fabulist’ is a jangly hook-laden pop song that skips along with bittersweet melodies and brisk drumming, with echoes of The Shop Assistants, and The Primitives and the C86 era. It’s so upbeat and shiny with brisk drumming that you could miss the fact that it’s a wholehearted take-down of people who lie for a living.
With only a cassette and a flexi single released so far, both of which sold out in a matter of hours, The Cords (Eva and Grace Tedeschi) have honed their skills by playing a whole series of gigs with some of the biggest names in Scottish pop. Their first show was with The Vaselines, and since then they have played with Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, BMX Bandits and others, while also sharing stages with the new generation of indiepop stars: the Umbrellas, Chime School, Lightheaded.
Like all great pop bands, The Cords have taken familiar ingredients and created something utterly fresh. Older indie fans may hear echoes of The Shop Assistants, The Primitives, Tiger Trap and Talulah Gosh, but they will hear something else too: a yearning, dreamy melodic power that takes the songs into darker, stranger places. Younger pop fans won’t care about these old reference points: what they will hear is the sound of two young women doing something utterly exciting: playing loud guitar and loud drums, taking analogue instruments and hitting them hard in the service of immediate and infectious pop tunes, and not giving a second thought about the digital world that wants to own everything we do. The Cords sound free: they remind us that pop music, played right, is expressive, liberating, joyful and deeply personal.
released September 26th, 2025
The Cords are Eva Tedeschi and
Grace Tedeschi.
I love this! I think my favourites are “Just Don’t Know (How To Be You)”, “Vera”, “Yes It’s True”, and “Weird Feeling”.
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