Listen Up! Quotes:

It’s truly one of the most addictive singles that have ever graced the hallowed halls of RetroLowFi HQ, and we’re not just saying that because of the delicious looking white vinyl it’s pressed on, either. RetroLowFi

Intelligently crafted indie pop, like The Smiths on a much more upbeat tip… Subba Cultcha

Like the previous single, the A-side [Listen Up!] is a surefire winner, that feels full of life and relaxed all at the same time with a bouncy piano-led melody. Indie Pages

Great song, very expresive and it is going to be a grower! AJ Kenedy – Isles FM

This babe is braided by a hugely lolloping and deviously off set hook that’ll flatten you without so much as a by your leave, blending the summer glazed dimpled effervescence of Dodgy’s holiday time honey ’staying out for the summer’ with the less obvious tangy overtones of a post ’wake up’ Boo Radleys, drizzled with subtle west coast accents and a head turning sucker punching infectiousness ’listen up!’ fizzles with a quietly disturbing lo-fi feel good mellowness and an un-assumed pop prowess that once slyly shimmying past your defences will set up home in your psyche and ping around nonchalantly until summer fades. Losing Today

Last but not least is Cityscape’s Merchandise with the summery pop gem Listen Up! It’s ‘Girl From Mars’ era Ash but more laidback and subtly sophisticated. Melodically simple and nicely structured, this sticks in the brain longer than you really want it to, which is annoying, but again, a sign of quality songwriting. Bearded Magazine

Its [Listen up] blissed-out rhythms work a slow magic on the listener, and you’ll gradually be won over. . . it’ll lift your spirits and, after all, that’s what pop is all about. Leeds Music Scene

[Merchandise] do accomplished, layered pop music with one foot in the ‘literate, dour Northerners’ camp and the other in the one that says ‘we’ve got beards, but we’re fun and approachable’. Diskant

“Listen Up!” provides the kind of happy-feel-good music that the Lightening Seeds were so adept at serving up at regular intervals. Manchester Music

. . . the b-side (which is becoming an increasingly archaic term in these days of downloading) ‘Lonesome Beauty’ is a seductive summer smoothie indebted to the seriously underrated Pale Fountains, Love’s ‘Forever Changes’, Burt Bacharach and The Lotus Eaters. The Devil Has The Best Tuna

Sometimes Quotes

ACOUSTIC loveliness abounds on Sometimes, the gloriously sunshine filled offering from eclectic collective Merchandise. A tune to be savoured when and if the summer sun rears its beaming head. Urban Life

Within 5 seconds of the jaunty piano intro to this track, you just know that “Sometimes” is going to be one of those feel good songs that you just have to smile at . . . a song that is quite simply cheerful even on a dreary summer evening. This single is pure feel good pop and makes a genuinely good listen. Glasswerk

Bad day at work? Melodic tunesmiths Merchandise will turn that frown upside down with their latest single. Looks like they might just have penned the feel-good hit of the summer.(4/5) UK Fusion.com

Uplifting piano led pop with a summery tint to it… Subba Cultcha.com

This Breath of fresh air is the perfect introduction to Merchandise’s uplifting pop sound. A story told through stirring optimistic lyrics with a simple, catchy musical accompaniment, this radio-friendly treat has the potential to put Merchandise on the Map. Music Week

This isn’t a record for the cynics or noisemongers amongst you, but there must be some pop fans left out there?Diskant

Almost guaranteed to have the listener skipping down a sun kissed Summer avenue.
Clash

Lo-Tech Solutions . . . Quotes:

Twelve sparkling gems that briefly come into your life and quickly disappear as though like spirits. Simply perfect.
Losing Today

Summer is finally here and Merchandise are the soundtrack
Angryape

The sound of pastoral idylls and eternal sunshine. A whole album of beautiful music.
Blowback Magazine

Lo-tech Solutions . . .is ready to shine its bright torch over our souls to give us back the summer that was almost never there.
Manchester Music

Not for them a musical template rendered dull by years of misuse. There’s no doubt, Merchandise have got a touch of genius.
BBC Manchester

This is honestly the most extraordinarily amazing album that I have ever heard.You could live your life by ‘Lo-Tech Solutions To High-Tech Problems.’ And I know for a fact that’s true – because I do. 5/5
UK Fusion

‘Lo Tech Solutions…’ paints Merchandise as a duo creatively sparking and with a pop-savvy second to none
Logo Magazine

This is truly a thing of beauty. A gem.
The Exclusive Fanzine

Fantastic pop music.
Tasty Fanzine

Simply perfect.
Losing Today

Merchandise create pattering, caressing, daydreamy music that conjures up an England of rain-washed colours and pale sunlight.
Kitten Painting

This is the band that other contemporaries could be if they had the balls to sponge other musical influences. Merchandise are a band that can not, and probably have no desire too, be labeled under any particular musical bracket other than their own unique one.
This is London

Few share the ideas of Merchandise, but then few make such great music.
Angry Ape

I’ve a feeling it could turn into love if you take the time to develop a meaningful relationship with Merchandise.
Vanity Project