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Cycles Per Second 02/26/25: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On this week’s show: Lo-fi and DIY pop from Russia (ТЭЦ), New Zealand (Joe Sampson), Australia (THE NEWSLETTERS) and the Netherlands (euroboy). San Francisco psych-pop (Lunchbox) and odd-pop (Deerhoof), and a full spectrum of British pop from trumpeting (My Fat Pony) to stomping (The Bug Club) to swooning (The Perfect English Weather). Bookended by expansive guitar sounds from Chris Brokaw and a long and hazy, shoegazey burst from New York City (Carnations).

Roll credits! …er, playlist. With all the usual Bandcamp links…

PLAYLIST:

Chris Brokaw – 8 Or 9 Things
https://chrisbrokaw12xu.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-ship

Joe Sampson – Going Down Slow
https://joesampson.bandcamp.com/album/2011-demos-vol-ii

ROMO – Expedition Crew
https://maybemars.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-paper

Deerhoof – Sparrow Sparrow
https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/sparrow-sparrow-f-w-overrated-species-anyhow

Lunchbox – Evolver
https://tim-and-donna-lunchbox.bandcamp.com/album/evolver

My Fat Pony – The Universe Expanded And We Stayed Here
https://myfatpony.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-expanded-and-we-stayed-here

The Perfect English Weather – Caroline of Brunswick Square
https://theperfectenglishweather.bandcamp.com/album/caroline-of-brunswick-square

The Bug Club – Have U Ever Been 2 Wales
https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/track/have-u-ever-been-2-wales

THE STATES – CAROL
https://thestatestheband.bandcamp.com/album/gimme-joy

euroboy – Asleep
https://euroboy.bandcamp.com/album/abcde

THE NEWSLETTERS – Be Together
https://thenewsletters.bandcamp.com/album/falling-rain-2

ТЭЦ – Не спеши, невеста
https://tezteztez.bandcamp.com/track/–15

Persica 3 – Twice As Bright & Half As Long
https://hiddenbayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-in-the-noise

Carnations – Bully
https://carnationsnyc.bandcamp.com/track/bully

Cycles Per Second 02/19/25: Bandcamp, etc. Links

On this week’s show: Hopscotching around Europe, with new indie from France (Joni Île, Cathedrale), Italy (a minor place), Spain (Zero Azúcar), Germany (mantarochen), Hungary (DEHIDRATÁLT FEJEK) and the UK (Most Things). Southern hemisphere sounds from Sydney (Dumbells, Olivia’s World), Brisbane (Dumb Things) and Hamilton, NZ (Matthew Bannister). Plus unearthed ’79 UK post-punk (HARDWARE) and early 90s Boston shoegaze (Drop Nineteens).

Everything you heard on the show and more (from these artists), below…

PLAYLIST:

DEHIDRATÁLT FEJEK – SZOLIDARITÓS DAL
https://szegyenkazettak.bandcamp.com/album/gondok

Paint Work – Aura
https://paintwork.bandcamp.com/track/aura

Dumbells – Hammer
https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/up-late-with-2

Now – In Pathécolor
https://nowww.bandcamp.com/album/now-does-the-trick

Sunbathe – Psychic Mud
https://thisissunbathe.bandcamp.com/album/myself-to-you

Dumb Things – Windows and Doors
https://dumbthings.bandcamp.com/album/self-help

Zero Azúcar – Ni al calor ni al frío
https://andaluciauberalles.bandcamp.com/album/zero-az-car

Cathedrale – Cravings
https://howlinbananarecords.bandcamp.com/album/poison

mantarochen – Steamy Nights
https://mantarochenband.bandcamp.com/album/cut-my-brainhair

Most Things – Shops!
https://mostthings1.bandcamp.com/track/shops

Horsegirl – Switch Over
https://thisishorsegirl.bandcamp.com/album/phonetics-on-and-on

HARDWARE – WALKING
https://hardware79.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-lp-1979

Olivia’s World – Empresário
https://oliviasworld.bandcamp.com/album/greedy-gorgeous-2

a minor place – LIVIA GOES TO THE WHALE SHOP
https://aminorplace.bandcamp.com/album/richard-barry-livia-and-roy

Joni Île – Tout le monde me fait la gueule
https://souterraine.bandcamp.com/album/jetlag

Matthew Bannister – Hearts Don’t Keep
https://powertoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/matthew-bannister-the-dark-backward-2025

Drop Nineteens – Kissing the Sea
https://dropnineteens.bandcamp.com/album/1991

Private Lives – Psychic Beat
https://privatelivesmtl.bandcamp.com/album/salt-of-the-earth