On this week’s show, we’re dwelling in the southern hemisphere, starting with a scorcher from Auckland, plus lurching pop (Dippers) and thrumming guitar rock (Jen Cloher) from Melbourne, vintage post-punk and beyond from Christchurch (Playthings, Bilderine). USA indie: Seattle (Tourist Activities), Detroit (Protomartyr), Minneapolis (Green​/Blue). Plus a new tune from a former Go-Between!

Follow the links for learning and further listening…

PLAYLIST:

Guardian Singles – Chad and Stacey
https://guardiansingles.bandcamp.com/album/feed-me-to-the-doves

Green​/Blue – All Eyes Awake
https://wlfmusicforiran.bandcamp.com/album/woman-life-freedom-music-for-iran-volume-1

Weird Numbers – Switching The Code
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/weird-numbers

Johnson Unit – Shop For Style
https://harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wild-gift-music-by-robert-christie-and-friends-1984-1996

Lack Of Knowledge – The Uninvited
https://lackofknowledge.bandcamp.com/album/the-uninvited

Dippers – Tightening The Tangles
https://dippers.bandcamp.com/track/tightening-the-tangles-2

Pierre Gisèle & Hugo Riché – Du Speed Au Lyc​é​e
https://flippinfreaks.bandcamp.com/album/mort-dun-homme-femmes

Playthings – Bird’s Eye View
https://playthings.bandcamp.com/album/playthings

Bilderine – Retail Trade
https://sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com/album/bilderine-split-seconds

Tourist Activities – Wrong Side
https://dentapes.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-side-oh-for-one

Jen Cloher – Being Human
https://jencloher.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-the-river-the-river-is-me-1

Dancer – The Split
https://goldmoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dancer

Protomartyr – Make Way
https://protomartyr.bandcamp.com/album/formal-growth-in-the-desert

the national honor society – As She Slips Away
https://thenationalhonorsociety.bandcamp.com/track/as-she-slips-away-2

The Laughing Chimes – Estates of Sparkling Haze
https://thelaughingchimesband.bandcamp.com/album/arboretum-miles

Amanda Brown – Light Lingers On
https://amandabrown.bandcamp.com/album/eight-guitars

On the show this week: A pure Kiwi pop blast (running club), buoyant indie from Ukraine (last past.), German lo-fi jangle-fuzz (Bobby Would) and some grungy Norwegian slacker pop (The Age of Colored Lizards). Plus new tunes from Australia (Terry, Summer Flake, Lachlan Denton), synth-punk from London (Es) to LA (Smirk) and Puget Sound pop from Seattle (TV Star) to Olympia (Daisies).

Compile your wish list in advance of this week’s Bandcamp Friday via links below…

PLAYLIST:

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

last past. – FOTOPLIVKY
https://elek3chestvo.bandcamp.com/album/ukrainian-indie-for-independence-pt

running club – easily
https://runningclub1.bandcamp.com/track/easily

Bobby Would – Corridor
https://digitalregress.bandcamp.com/album/styx

Discus – Caddo Lake
https://discus.bandcamp.com/album/caddo-lake-we-are-just-where-we-are

Chime School – Summer Sun
https://prefectrecords.bandcamp.com/album/14

Terry – Gronks
https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/album/call-me-terry

Model Citizens – Shift The Blame
https://sundazedmusic.bandcamp.com/album/nyc-1978-1979

Leon In The Wild – Quiet Covers Up A Lot
https://recordedpsychicreadings.bandcamp.com/album/leon-in-the-wild-ep

Lachlan Denton – You
https://lachlandenton.bandcamp.com/album/furnishings

The Happy Somethings – Worried Fools
https://thehappysomethings.bandcamp.com/album/a-gathering-of-all-sorts-album

Gerard Love – If I Could Tell You
https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/glass-remade-remodelled

Es – Swallowed Whole
https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy-ep

Smirk – On Crack
https://smirk1.bandcamp.com/album/7-2

The Age of Colored Lizards – It​’​s Not the Way It Used to Be
https://theageofcoloredlizards.bandcamp.com/track/it-s-not-the-way-it-used-to-be

Summer Flake – Barnacle Bill
https://summerflake.bandcamp.com/album/one-less-thing

HOUSE Of ALL – Harlequin Duke
https://houseofall.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-all

Daisies – Is It Any Wonder?
https://daisies.bandcamp.com/album/great-big-open-sky