Nonstop Pop

On the show this week: New melodic indie, in many forms: British strum-and-thrum (Holiday Ghosts, Action Painting!), American shimmer from Baltimore (Tomato Flower) and psych from Austin (Fantastic Purple Spots), Australian twang (Straight skirt), Chinese jangle (心椒椒 PAPPER HEART) and power pop from Finland (Teini-Pää). Punk and post-punk from America (Lupo Citta, Bonies), German (Onyon) and the UK (Beige Banquet, Blue Orchids).

Dig into more from every artist played this week…

PLAYLIST:

Holiday Ghosts – Sublime Disconnect
https://holidayghosts.bandcamp.com/album/coat-of-arms

Teini-Pää – Mietin minne meet
https://youtu.be/4Q97pSjhg-g

Action Painting! – Just Who Are The Cockleshell Heroes?
https://ndrthebridge.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-bridge-2

Chainsaw President – Only Noise
https://flennen.bandcamp.com/album/flennen-no-15

Tomato Flower – Saint
https://tomatoflower.bandcamp.com/album/no

Dancer – Passionate Sunday
https://meritoriorec.bandcamp.com/album/10-songs-i-hate-about-you

Lupo Citta – White Bracelet
https://lupocitta12xu.bandcamp.com/album/lupo-citt

Bonies – Disruptor
https://bonies.bandcamp.com/track/disruptor

Beige Banquet – Ornamental Hermit
https://beigebanquet.bandcamp.com/album/ornamental-hermit

Onyon – Goldie
https://flennen.bandcamp.com/album/flennen-no-15

Blue Orchids – The Flood (demo)
https://blueorchids.bandcamp.com/album/the-greatest-hit-money-mountain-deluxe-edition

Straight Skirt – Disappointed
https://gardenseat.bandcamp.com/album/straight-skirt

心椒椒 PAPPER HEART – 红喷泉
https://smallanimalsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/–3

Fantastic Purple Spots – Vibrations Now
https://athrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vibrations-now

J.McFarlane’s Reality Guest – Slinky
https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/whoopee

Pete Astor – Model Village
https://peteastor.bandcamp.com/album/tall-stories-new-religions

On this week’s show: New indie rock and pop from scenes around the USA, including NYC (Bodega, Gustaf), Philadelphia (False Tracks, Maria T), LA (Slow Hollows), Bellingham, WA (careen), Nashville (Spodee Boy), the SF Bay (Torrey, The Umbrellas) and western Mass (Luxor Rentals). Plus music from Sweden (Agent blå), Australia (Seven Hour Days), Canada (Ducks Ltd.) and the UK (Grazia, The Pheromoans).

Links to all of the above, below…

PLAYLIST:

BODEGA – Tarkovski
https://bodegabk.bandcamp.com/album/our-brand-could-be-yr-life

Torrey – No Matter How
https://torreymusic.bandcamp.com/album/torrey

Slow Hollows – Idle Hands
https://slowhollows.bandcamp.com/album/bullhead

Maria T – Wind Down
https://thisismariat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-down-2

The Pheromoans – Downtown
https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/wyrd-psearch

False Tracks – Suspended Animation
https://falsetracks.bandcamp.com/album/hymn-for-terror

Ducks Ltd. – Train Full of Gasoline
https://ducksltdband.bandcamp.com/album/harms-way

Agent blå – Discount
https://agentblasweden.bandcamp.com/album/stab

Seven Hour Days – 1974
https://sevenhourdays.bandcamp.com/track/1974

The Umbrellas – Gone
https://theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/fairweather-friend