On this week’s show: New indie music from Seattle (Versing, TV Star) and Olympia (Field School). Taiwanese shoegaze (Manic Sheep), folky Aussie jangle (Lower Plenty), Glaswegian indie rock (Dragged Up) and kinetic Canadian indie rock (BE AFRAID). A block of synth-heavy rock, with icy-cool post-punk from Memphis (Optic Sink) and Montreal (Yocto) and lush and sweeping pop from Atlanta (Cindy Wilson). Plus a reissue w/Mission of Burma as backing band? Yup.

Want to listen more or support your favorites from this week’s show? Bandcamp Friday is again this Friday, and links to listen and purchase are just a short scroll away…

PLAYLIST:

Red Pants – Witching Hour
https://redred.bandcamp.com/album/not-quite-there-yet

Versing – Circles
https://versing.bandcamp.com/album/tape-ii-2

TV Star – Living Spree
https://tvstar.bandcamp.com/album/tv3

Manic Sheep – Tawdry Clip
https://manicsheep.bandcamp.com/album/morning-fragment

Dredd Foole & the Din – So Tough (live)
https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-fall

BE AFRAID – Hello Ugly
https://beafraid.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-looks-like-prosperity

Dragged Up – Hex Domestic
https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hex-domestic-ep

Lower Plenty – Back to the Foldout
https://bedroomsuckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-poets

Parker Allen – Ankh
https://evernever-records.bandcamp.com/album/melon-kolly-parkers-first-song-diary

SONNY & THE SUNSETS – Androids
https://sonnyandthesunsets.bandcamp.com/album/self-awareness-through-macrame

Field School – I Couldn’t Stop the Rain for You
https://fieldschool.bandcamp.com/album/a-familiar-fate-ep

Optic Sink – Glass Blocks
https://opticsink.bandcamp.com/album/glass-blocks

Yocto – Lance​-​Flamme Lance​-​Glace
https://requiempouruntwister.bandcamp.com/album/zepta-supernova

Bennett – Glass Ball
https://bennettnow.bandcamp.com/track/glass-ball

Cindy Wilson – Hold On
https://cindywilson.bandcamp.com/album/realms

Connie Lovatt – Gull
https://connielovatt.bandcamp.com/album/coconut-mirror

On the show this week: American indie, from psych echoing (The Smashing Times) to lush (The Garment District), fuzzed-out pop (Blues Lawyer, Blue Ocean) and spiky art-punk (Patio). Start-stop rock from Dublin, jazzy folk-pop from London (The Clientele) and Aussie jangle from Melbourne (Soft Covers, The Small Intestines). Plus reissues of German punk, a lost NZ post-punk single, and the surprising return of a post-C86 UK band.

Lengthen your listening by checking out the Bandcamp pages (below) for all the new releases heard on the show…

PLAYLIST:

Feeling Figures – Across The Line
https://feelingfigures.bandcamp.com/album/migration-magic

Patio – Relics
https://patio-bandcamp.bandcamp.com/album/collection

Solatudes – Home Again
https://solatudes.bandcamp.com/album/home-again

Swansea Sound – TWENTIETH CENTURY
https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com/album/twentieth-century

Blue Ocean – Fertile State
https://blueoceanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fertile-state

Soft Covers – The Real Housewives of Porpoise Spit
https://softcovers.bandcamp.com/album/soft-serve

The Smashing Times – Monday, In A Small Dull Town
https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com/album/this-sporting-life

The Clientele – Claire’s Not Real
https://theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-there-anymore

The Garment District – Left On Coast
https://hhbtm.bandcamp.com/album/flowers-telegraphed-to-all-parts-of-the-world

Blues Lawyer – Have Nots
https://blueslawyer.bandcamp.com/album/sight-gags-on-the-radio

Mousefolk – Sleepwalk
https://mousefolk1.bandcamp.com/album/theyre-in-fashion-today

Soft on Crime – Catamaran
https://softoncrime.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-vol-1

The Small Intestines – Old Town
https://thesmallintestines.bandcamp.com/album/hide-in-time

The Feelies – Rock & Roll (live)
https://thefeelies.bandcamp.com/album/some-kinda-love-performing-the-music-of-the-velvet-underground

Hans-A-Plast – Rank Xerox
https://hans-a-plast.bandcamp.com/album/hans-a-plast