It was so nice to realise that, when the alarm rang at quarter to seven this morning, it wasn’t completely dark anymore. Spring is coming closer indeed! How fitting, too, to listen to the new Pocketbooks EP on a Monday morning, as it is called Waking Up. I have listened to these Londoners a fair bit during the past months, which might not show on my last.fm profile, but I happen to be married to their ‘top listener’. Hey, that’s not a bad thing at all; it’s only right and fair that the band is regarded of one of the best new things in British indiepop. The new EP can be listened to in its entirety from its last.fm page, where you’ll also find an mp3 of Don’t Stop. On the band’s website, you’ll find a couple of other tunes and if you want to buy it, Make Do And Mend Records, for which this is the first release, is your place to be.