cootie catcher

City of Origin: Toronto, ON, Canada

Period of Activity: 2020s

Members: Sophia Chavez, Anita Fowl, Nolan Jakubovski, Joseph Shemoun

Related Artists: None that I know of

Discography:

Social Media: Bandcamp | Instagram | Neocities

I honestly hadn't thought much of cootie catcher when I first heard them; they were one of those bands that I felt like I ought to check out because it's indiepop and it's new, but the album didn't leave much of a first impression on me. Several months later, I'm on vacation and tuning into the local university's radio station, when this song comes on: it's super-twee, it's got all sorts of electronic beeps and boops, and it's immediately stuck in my head. Of course, it turns out that song was "Friend of a Friend" by cootie catcher! As of the time of writing, I'm still not all the way there yet on loving their album, but I definitely feel a fondness for them that I wouldn't have initially expected.