Brideshead

The roots of Brideshead trace back to 1993, when the group first assembled under the name Starfish and established the foundation for their '80s-influenced guitar pop. Their opening release arrived two years afterward in the form of the EP This Is Mall Music! on Apricot Records, an interval defined by persistent lineup shifts that continued until 1997. Once the Frankfurt natives locked in Martin Nelte on vocals, Zwen Keller and Hanns-Christian Mahler on guitar, Paul Engling on bass, and Daniel Kubsch on drums, they gained the stability needed to cut their debut album Some People Have All the Fun for Marsh-Marigold in 1998. Echoing the classic indie pop approach of Orange Juice and the Pale Fountains, the record captured their melodic sensibility. The 2002 follow-up LP In and Out Love assembled tracks drawn from multiple earlier EPs and singles together with several new pieces. After remaining largely dormant through the rest of the decade, the band resurfaced in 2010 on Shelflife Records with the five-song Comeback EP and finally issued their third full-length, Never Grow Up, in 2015.