It’s super early days for Liverpool duo Police Car Collective, but they’re picking up pace with their 80s-indebted pop bops.
Words: Finlay Holden.
Police Car Collective have been making waves as a secretive, mysterious group online, pumping out tunes with indie-pop, alt-rock, dream-pop and shoegaze influences – their genre as elusive as their character.
Simon, who primarily performs bass, explains: “I’m from Bristol but moved up here to Liverpool for uni. Through secondary school, I played in bands with my friends, basically trying to sound like The Smiths. I moved here, we met pretty soon after, and we clicked big time.”
For a duo who now adopt the motto ‘DELETE THE INTERNET’, it is a fun side-note that they actually wouldn’t exist without it – a duality somewhat plaguing the entirety of modern existence. In this specific case, the pair actually found each other through a double-date gone right; the guys clicked more with each other than their intended partners, and it’s these relationships that ultimately pushed forward. “Our band is us trying to figure out being on the internet, and what it means to exist on it, so it’s sort of ironic that we met through something that could only take place there,” Frankie reflects.






