On this week’s show: A spectrum of indie pop, from garage-y NZ jangle (Best Bets) to spirited Cali crunch (The Frenchmen) and taut NYC melody (lame drivers). From the UK, drone-folk in rock overdrive (David Lance Callahan) to swirling and pulsating go-go pop (The Soundcarriers). Plus dreamy and dark strums from the Bay Area (Parallel, Tony Jay), indie rock from Bordeaux (Pretty Inside, Cosmopaark) and a Young Marble Giants-related Welsh obscurity (Reptile Ranch).
Wanna hear more? You’re in luck: links to band and label pages this way down…
PLAYLIST:
Best Bets – Monster
https://bestbets.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-husk-of-feeling
The Frenchmen – Change Of Season
https://thefrenchmen.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-we-ruined-your-party
lame drivers – State of Mind
https://lamedrivers.bandcamp.com/album/become-an-island
Pretty Inside – Life Inside a Jelly Bean
https://prettyinside.bandcamp.com/album/i-care-about-you
Weak Signal – Wannabe
https://weaksignal12xu.bandcamp.com/album/fine
The Soundcarriers – Already Over
https://the-soundcarriers.bandcamp.com/album/through-other-reflections
Chris Cohen – Night or Day
https://chriscohen.bandcamp.com/album/paint-a-room
David Lance Callahan – Robin Reliant
https://davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/down-to-the-marshes
Cosmopaark – Pure Intention
https://howlinbananarecords.bandcamp.com/album/summer-sampler-11
dip – traffic
https://kilikilivilla.bandcamp.com/album/hollowgallow
Reptile Ranch – Saying Goodbye
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-postcards-vol-2-d-i-y-and-indie-post-punk-from-great-britain-1978-lp/SAMIZDAT.002LP.html
Galaxie 500 – I Wanna Live
https://galaxie500.bandcamp.com/album/uncollected-noise-new-york-88-90
Parallel – Blister
https://paralleloakland.bandcamp.com/album/flooded
Tony Jay – The Darkest Corner
https://tonyjay.bandcamp.com/album/knife-is-but-a-dream
CLASS – Just A Worm
https://nowthatsclass.bandcamp.com/album/total-punk-order-of-the-dirty-plates-singles-club-2024