Juice Pops album launch

After four years of quietly crafting their sound, Manchester’s Juice Pops are ready to make some noise. With their debut album Living Books, the quartet step confidently into their hometown spotlight, launching the record with a special gig at YES Basement.

Since forming in 2018 and releasing their self-titled EP in 2021, Juice Pops have evolved from purveyors of bright, sunshine-pop to something altogether more richly textured. Their brand of upbeat indie rock now sprawls across genres – psychedelia, post-hardcore, garage rock, surf, and power pop all collide in an exuberant mix that feels both nostalgic and modern.

Living Books channels a restless energy into a set of songs that swing between mania and melancholy, packed with lyrical flights of imagination – cathedrals, time machines, stargazing, and haunted heroines straight from the pages of Tolstoy. Musically, it’s a fever dream of intertwining twin guitars, harmonies and vintage organ swells, balancing moments of lush introspection against sharp, tonally shifting bursts of chaos. BBC Introducing Manchester have already hailed lead single Heavyweight Champion as “that sweet intersection of noise and bliss that makes magic.”

Support comes from Precious Metals. Precious Metals formed in Sheffield in 2018. Their beachcombing post-punk riffs, psychedelic keys and earworming alternative pop harmonies have the band surfing somewhere on the Pacific Ocean between 90s Olympia and Connan Mockasin’s tripped-out New Zealand.

Presented by Hey! Manchester.

This is an 18+ event