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Glasgow indie-pop artist The Pooches have premiered the music video for their single "The Light". The video, directed by Luke Barham is for the third single off of the band's debut album "The Pooches". The album will be released September 9th on Lame-O Records. Pre-orders are now available on vinyl and digitally via Lame-O Records and on cassette via Related Records. The album features artwork by filmmaker and visual artist Thomas Campbell.

The Pooches started as the one-man home recording project of Jimmy Hindle during the summer of 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland. After a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund an album of 18 original songs, ‘Smoochin’ with the Pooches’ was self-released digitally via Bandcamp in late 2013. With it’s lo-fi pop charms being described as sounding ‘like Julian Casablancas fronting The Beach Boys’, it soon caught the attention of local label Gold Mold Records, who released it on limited edition tape in the UK, with it selling out pretty much straight away. The achieved top ten adds at over 20 college radio stations in the US. A further collection of home recordings - ‘One Man Dog’ - was also released in early 2015.
 
The band, now expanded to a 4 piece with Calvin Halliday on drums, Andy Kelly on guitar and Gavin Cormack on bass, have opened for Surfer Blood, Modern Baseball, Carseat Headrest, Beach Slang, Elvis Depressedly, Colleen Green, Hop Along and more.
 
The new line-up released their debut EP, ‘Heart Attack’ on Lame-O Records in January of 2016. On September 9th, they will follow up with their self-titled LP. The Pooches takes influence from the Stiff Records sound of bands like Any Trouble and Squeeze, the power-pop jangle of Big Star, whilst simultaneously carrying on the tradition of Glaswegian indie-pop stalwarts The Pastels and Teenage Fanclub.