Bathing in intimate lo-fi shimmers, the new single from Pop Miri serves up balmy, heart-break tonic.

After an opening 20 seconds of brooding, muffled Musique concrète, South London solo artist Pop Miri quickly reveals their true agenda with a wash of reverberating guitar chords and a tender, intimate vocal.  Offering a luscious, velvety embrace of lo-fi dream-pop, ‘Battery Acid’ falls gently down to the earth like a cloud of falling autumn leaves; a real comfort, and one indeed for the wee small, candlelit hours. With a little of La Luz in its surf-tinged sway, and the recent releases of Goat Girl and Warpaint offering helpful musical reference points too, there’s a distinct grace and poise about Pop Miri’s work, one that bestows a soulful, nourishing listen indeed.

Recorded in a ‘hi-fi bedroom studio’ in South London,  ‘Battery Acid’ teases a forthcoming debut album, one that spans, we’re told, “3 years, 9 producers, 11 severe haircuts, and 13 studios,” sees Pop Miri playing every part herself, and which documents her relationship with ex-husband (and now best friend), whom she married aged 21. “I would recommend everyone to get their heart broken as fully as possible, in as many ways as possible,” we’re told. “It’s really very good for you.”