Monthly Archives: February 2023

Cycles Per Second 02/08/23: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On this week’s show, a post-Bandcamp Friday bounty: UK sounds doomy (Drahla) to punk-funk-n-jazzy (A Certain Ratio). Japanese shoegaze (SPOOL, plant cell), Aussie jangle (Monnone Alone), and spiky-sparky pop from Glasgow (Water Machine, Dancer). American indie from Maine (The Ekphrastics) to SF (The Reds, Pinks & Purples) to Memphis (Elf Rage) to Seattle (Spiral XP). And reissues from a 90s Aussie-American collab (The Shapiros) and early 80s vintage Welsh post-punk (Violin Sect).

Links to learn more and buy below…

PLAYLIST:

Holiday Ghosts – Vulture
https://holidayghosts.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-reality

Water Machine – WATER MACHINE
https://watermachine.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-demo-tape

Dancer – Arch Nemesis
https://goldmoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dancer

Violin Sect – Fit & Anxious
https://minimumtablestacks.bandcamp.com/album/vile-insect

A Certain Ratio – Samo
https://acertainratio.bandcamp.com/album/1982

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Life in the Void
https://theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp.com/album/the-town-that-cursed-your-name-3

The Shapiros – Paris Kiss
https://theshapiros.bandcamp.com/album/gone-by-fall-the-collected-works-of-the-shapiros

The Ekphrastics – Putting the Shot
https://ekphrastics.bandcamp.com/album/putting-the-shot-b-w-the-steeplechase

Elf Rage – Everyday Struggle
https://publicinterestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/losing-momentum-4

Monnone Alone – Ways to Wear My Hair
https://monnonealone.bandcamp.com/album/ways-to-wear-my-hair

The Primitives – Panic
https://hhbtm.bandcamp.com/album/dont-know-where-to-start

Drahla – Lip Sync
https://drahla.bandcamp.com/track/lip-sync

FACS – When You Say
https://wearefacs.bandcamp.com/album/still-life-in-decay

Spiral XP – Free Thinking
https://spiralxp.bandcamp.com/album/its-been-a-while

SPOOL – fu_ka_n
https://testcardrecords2017.bandcamp.com/album/image-for-drawing-on-canvas

plant cell – Princess of Wales Roses
https://plantcelljapan.bandcamp.com/track/princess-of-wales-roses

Cycles Per Second 02/01/23: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On the show this week: Guitar pop from Australia (Spice World) and New Zealand (Surf Friends), dreamy fuzz-pop from Spain, German electro-punk (D.B.R.), and shimmering psych from the UK (Ulrika Spacek) to Japan (White Heaven). Pacfic Northwestern indie from Seattle (TV Star) and Portland (Woolen Men). Plus some way out and wavy sounds from middle America, from Louisville (Equipment Pointed Ankh) to Chicago (brainwaiver), to Memphis (Ibex Clone).

This Friday is another Bandcamp Friday, so scan the link dump for your faves…

PLAYLIST:

Spice World – Decorated Boy Scout
https://spiceworld.bandcamp.com/album/theres-no-i-in-spice-world

Ibex Clone – There Is No Light
https://ibexclone.bandcamp.com/album/all-channels-clear

Whitney’s Playland – Sunset Sea Breeze
https://whitneysplayland.bandcamp.com/album/sunset-sea-breeze

TV Star – Room
https://tvstar.bandcamp.com/album/hallucinate-me

Woolen Men – Forgotten 45
https://woolenmen.bandcamp.com/track/forgotten-45

White Heaven – Paper Beach
https://whiteheaven.bandcamp.com/album/strange-bedfellow

Equipment Pointed Ankh – Port of Indiana
https://equipmentpointedankh.bandcamp.com/album/from-inside-the-house

brainwaiver – $6.66
https://brainwaiver.bandcamp.com/album/666

Ulrika Spacek – The Sheer Drop
https://ulrikaspacek.bandcamp.com/album/compact-trauma

Surf Friends – Something Real
https://surffriends.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-waves

Primer Infant – Warm Hurricane
https://flexidiscos.bandcamp.com/album/era-por

Double Grave – Heavy
https://disposableamerica.bandcamp.com/album/till-the-ground

D​.​B​.​R​.​ -​ Hit U
https://flennen.bandcamp.com/album/flennen-no-14