Cycles Per Second 12/10/25: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On this week’s show: Punk from Chicago (clickbait), Berlin (FOTZE), London (Es) and Olympia, WA (Fugitive Bubble). Jangle (Julian Never, smiles) and dream-drone (April Magazine) from California. Gentle Japanese pop (Sugar Plant) and a clattering shimmer of Aussie sound (EXEK). Plus a few reissues, incl some NZ post-punk (Alms For Children) and classic cuts from recent and upcoming reissues of essential albums by Mission of Burma and Versus.

Link roundup below…

PLAYLIST:

Julian Never – Push
https://mtstmtn.bandcamp.com/album/everyday-is-purgation

smiles – Sometimes, Maybe Always II
https://smiles666.bandcamp.com/album/the-beguiling-of-merlin-ep

sugar plant – anything
https://big-up.style/kPEUwvX95p?wovn=en

Buddha on the Moon – Processions
https://buddhaonthemoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-jury-service-suite

EXEK – Sidestepping
https://exek.bandcamp.com/album/prove-the-mountains-move

clickbait – Fish Filet
https://clickbaitspam.bandcamp.com/album/fish-fillet-money

Fugitive Bubble – Picking Meat Off the Bone
https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/poppy-seeds-an-international-benefit-for-mutual-aid-in-gaza

FOTZE – Kiffen
https://georgekorearecords.bandcamp.com/album/punkkonzert

Muddy Worries – No Time
https://thepanthersparty.bandcamp.com/album/panthers-for-gaza

Swell Maps – Johnny Seven
https://swellmapsc21.bandcamp.com/album/c21

Es – Growing Pains
https://esband.bandcamp.com/track/growing-pains

Alms For Children – Circles
https://afctsl.bandcamp.com/album/recycled

Mission of Burma – Mica
https://missionofburmamusic.bandcamp.com/album/vs-1

Versus – Mirror Mirror
https://versusny.bandcamp.com/album/the-stars-are-insane

Guitar – Cornerland
https://guitarportland.bandcamp.com/album/were-headed-to-the-lake

April Magazine – Warm As The Sun
https://aprilmagazine.bandcamp.com/album/double-life-beat

Cycles Per Second 12/03/25: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On this week’s show: Pulsating pop from Paris (Alvilda) to Helsinki (Teini-Pää). German indie from taut (MARAUDEUR) and minimal (Jejeje) to expansive (Melting Palms) and psychedelic (LOBSTERBOMB). Japanese retro power-pop (FRETBUZZ), gentle British guitar psych (The Bevis Frond) and heaps of new American indie rock from Chicago (Mint Mile), Atlanta (Arbor Labor Union), Brooklyn (Inland Years), Providence (Older Brother) and Washington, DC (Nice Breeze).

If you’re a whole album kind of person, I’ve got great news for you, in the form of links to the full releases from which the songs on this show were harvested…

PLAYLIST:

Alvilda – Cinéma
https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/poppy-seeds-an-international-benefit-for-mutual-aid-in-gaza

Teini-Pää – Enkelten kaupungissa
https://teinipaa.bandcamp.com/track/enkelten-kaupungissa

LOBSTERBOMB – Nightbird
https://lobsterbomb.bandcamp.com/album/overstimulated

MARAUDEUR – Syncope
https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/album/flaschentr-ger

Jejeje – Hablar con la pared
https://kitchenlegrecordsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/jejeje-ambivalencia-artificial

The Bevis Frond – Horrorful Heights
https://bevisfrondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/horrorful-heights

Arbor Labor Union – Hidden In a Drop of Dew
https://sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com/album/arbor-labor-union-out-to-pasture

Mint Mile – andwhichstray
https://mintmile.bandcamp.com/album/andwhichstray

Older Brother – Space Invader
https://myolderbrother.bandcamp.com/album/the-devil-hangs-around

FRETBUZZ – Nothing is Just Nothing
https://targetearthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fretbuzz-nothing-is-just-nothing

Nice Breeze – Dunk In The Dugout
https://siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/nice-breeze-everything-disappears-lp

Inland Years – Make You Feel Better
https://inlandyears.bandcamp.com/album/the-bunker-sessions

Melting Palms – Maze
https://meltingpalms.bandcamp.com/album/head-in-the-clouds

Dame Gertrude – MONDE MODERNE
https://souterraine.bandcamp.com/album/personnage-secondaire

Primevère – Coeur
https://primevere.bandcamp.com/album/iii