Jangle Pop Hub Returns to Billy Bonbon: "Beautifully Haunting"
July 28, 2025 | Beat the Delete #254 | Jangle Pop Hub
Influential jangle pop blog Jangle Pop Hub featured Billy Bonbon for the second time in their prestigious "Beat the Delete" weekly recommendations, praising "HEY YOU" as drifting "between Bon Iver or Elliott Smith style jangly melancholy and Castlebeat at his most beautifully haunting."
Elliott Smith and Bon Iver Comparisons
The review positioned "HEY YOU" within an emotional lineage of introspective singer-songwriters, noting it's "typical of the quality that can be expected from the Billy EP it is taken from."
By drawing comparisons to both Elliott Smith's jangly melancholy and Castlebeat's haunting aesthetics, Jangle Pop Hub recognized Billy Bonbon's ability to balance vulnerability with compelling production.
Second Feature from Tastemaker Blog
This marks the second time Jangle Pop Hub has included Billy Bonbon in their "Beat the Delete" column, having previously featured "Belly Kiss" in July 2020. The repeat coverage demonstrates the blog's sustained interest in Billy Bonbon's evolving sound.
"Beat the Delete" is one of the most respected weekly music recommendation columns in the indie and jangle pop community, with each feature representing music that has beaten "the dreaded delete button."
About Jangle Pop Hub
Jangle Pop Hub is the definitive authority on jangle pop, indie pop, and related genres. The blog's weekly "Beat the Delete" column curates approximately 30 tracks from hundreds of submissions, making inclusion highly competitive and prestigious.
