The Cords have released the best indie pop album of 2025. It has songs, style and will stick in your head for the rest of your life. Simply the best. Comprised of sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi, the duo began playing drums at a young age. Their love for 80s and 90s indie music led them to form a band together, with Grace on drums and Eva on guitar.
The sisters quickly gained popularity, with their cassette and flexi single selling out in hours. They played gigs with renowned Scottish pop bands like The Vaselines, Camera Obscura, and Belle and Sebastian, as well as newer indiepop groups like the Umbrellas and Chime School. The Cords’ eagerly-awaited debut album will be co-released by Skep Wax and Slumberland Records.
Do you remember that you would have been listening to John Peel religiously, pouring each week over the NME, Melody Maker and occasionally Sounds… these teen sisters have come to this themselves, the Sarah Records DIY aesthetic, with fold-around sleeve and inserts whilst soaking up their parents’ record collections (The Cure, BMX Bandits and Nirvana I believe). What they’ve done to date hasn’t been cynically calculated or done as marketing, it’s been a pure love for a scene/movement or, as they put it they’re just, ‘A Scottish, jangle, DIY indie pop sister duo who channel classic C86 straight from the heart’. The Cords have taken familiar ingredients from what’s gone before and created something utterly fresh. Older indie fans may hear echoes of The Shop Assistants and Tiger Trap but will hear something else too: a yearning, dreamy melodic power that takes the songs into darker, stranger places.
Their music has been compared to bands like The Shop Assistants and Talulah Gosh, but with a unique dreamy melodic power that sets them apart. The album features catchy pop tunes like “Fabulist” and “Just Don’t Know (How To Be You)”, as well as more introspective tracks like “October” and “When You Said Goodbye”.
Produced by Jonny Scott and Simon Liddel, the record showcases Eva’s sinuous guitar and silky vocals, along with Grace’s expressive drumming. The first single from The Cords’ debut album (release date: 26th September 2025) “Fabulist” was released on 22nd July and is available as a very limited transparent lathe-cut 7″ and as a CD single on Skep Wax Records (Europe) and Slumberland Records (America).
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