On this week’s show: French post-punk from Lille (L’Argousier) and Brest (Chafouin), Australian indie from Brisbane (Start Together) to Melbourne (Bollard, Ron Rude) and punk from Indonesia (Grrrl Gang). American sounds from Boston shoegaze (Bedroom Eyes) to lo-fi Michigander rock (ditch bunnies) to DC songcraft (FAUNAS). New Zealand indie from Auckland urgency (Guardian Singles) to Wellington expansiveness (Orangefarm). And the return of NYC’s Patio!

Read on for more about everything you heard on this week’s show, mostly direct from the bands and labels…

PLAYLIST:

Patio – En Plein Air
https://patio-bandcamp.bandcamp.com/track/en-plein-air

L’Argousier – Diluer
https://souterraine.bandcamp.com/album/diluer

Bollard – Between the hemispheres
https://bollardband.bandcamp.com/track/between-the-hemispheres

Chafouin – D​é​jà
https://chafouin.bandcamp.com/album/trois-quatre

ditch bunnies – Hold the Phone
https://ditchbunnies.bandcamp.com/album/yup

MONONEGATIVES – Second Self
https://mononegatives.bandcamp.com/album/crossing-visual-field

Guardian Singles – Com Trans
https://guardiansingles.bandcamp.com/album/feed-me-to-the-doves

Current Affairs – No Fuss
https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/album/off-the-tongue

Student Nurse – Hair
https://studentnurse.bandcamp.com/album/problem-attic

Grrrl Gang – Spunky!
https://grrrlgang.bandcamp.com/album/spunky

Panic Pocket – MR BIG
https://panicpocket.bandcamp.com/album/mad-half-hour

Start Together – Separate Beds
https://www.backseatmafia.com/premiere-newly-signed-to-4000-records-start-together-are-a-post-punk-new-wave-delight-with-the-cool-and-urgent-separate-beds-ahead-of-new-album/

Bedroom Eyes – Brood
https://bdrmeyes.bandcamp.com/album/turned-away

Orangefarm – Settle​(​In Your Eyes)
https://orangefarmnz.bandcamp.com/album/inheritance

Ron Rude – Silver City
https://sorcererrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-borders-of-disgrace

FAUNAS – Avid
https://faunas.bandcamp.com/album/paint-the-birds

On the show this week: New sounds from various American enclaves, from St. Louis, MO (Soup Activists) to Santa Clara, CA (Jake Mann) to Richmond, VA (Sneaky Thoughts) to Holyoke, MA (Landowner) to Phoenix, AZ (the sheaves). French minimalism (Ashes Divine), Swiss cool (ONETWOTHREE), Australian indie rock (Jungle Breed) and shoegaze from Russian (К​а​и​р) to Ukrainian (last past.).

Links to listen and learn below…

PLAYLIST:

Jungle Breed – Livin’ Lux
https://junglebreed.bandcamp.com/track/livin-lux

Garden Centre – Hall of Fame
https://gardencentre.bandcamp.com/album/searching-for-a-stream-2

Soup Activists – I don’t care what Gilchrist says
https://soupactivists.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-care-what-gilchrist-says

Landowner – Witch Museum
https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/escape-the-compound

the sheaves – Hit Silly
https://sheaves.bandcamp.com/album/excess-death-cult-time-cassette-digital

New Math – The Restless Kind
https://propellersoundrecordings.com/products/pre-order-new-math-webstore-exclusive-lp

ONETWOTHREE – Are You Have You
https://onetwothree.bandcamp.com/album/welcome

Sneaky Thoughts – Can’t stay mad
https://sneakythoughts.bandcamp.com/album/demos

Heavenly – Tool
https://heavenlyindie.bandcamp.com/album/le-jardin-de-heavenly

Tough Age – Which Way Am I?
https://tough-age.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-here

Jake Mann – SIGNS
https://jakemann.bandcamp.com/album/outta-mind-a-while

Teenage Fanclub – Foreign Land
https://teenage-fanclub.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-lasts-forever-2

Blair Parkes – sirens
https://blairparkes.bandcamp.com/album/breezy

К​а​и​р – Тэц
https://tezteztez.bandcamp.com/track/–14

last past. – Flying Dreams
https://elek3chestvo.bandcamp.com/album/capacity-of-sense

Mo Dotti – Ever
https://practicalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories

Volunteers In Policing Program – Dancing
https://eternalsoundcheck.bandcamp.com/album/v-i-p-p-ii

Ashes Divine – Livid Boy
https://lunadeliarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ashes-and-cream-ep