It’s that time of year… for the Cycles Per Second Holiday Special! Christmas & wintertime originals fresh for this season. Grab a hot cocoa, tune in for holiday songs from the UK, Japan, Canada, USA. Then scan the links below for your favorites for purchase info…

PLAYLIST:

Cocktails – ‘Tis The Season
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/have-yourself-a-dandy-x-mas

The Photocopies – Under Christmas Lights
https://thephotocopies.bandcamp.com/track/under-christmas-lights

Building Rockets – Surfin’ Santa
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/24

Hazy Sour Cherry – Cold, cold winter
https://hazysourcherry.bandcamp.com/album/bell-of-the-beginning

twitchels – ode to just like christmas
https://twitchels.bandcamp.com/track/ode-to-just-like-christmas

The This – Winter Tires
https://kingfisherbluez.bandcamp.com/album/kingfisher-bluez-christmas-single-2021

the 1981 – Christmas In The Tenderloin
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/have-yourself-a-dandy-x-mas

The Caraway – Another Christmas Will Come Around This Year
https://blue-verylabel.bandcamp.com/album/another-christmas-will-come-around-this-year

david newton & thee mighty angels – Winter Tradgedy
https://theemightyangels.bandcamp.com/track/winter-tragedy

the Popguns – The Twelve Days of Christmas
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/24

The Hannah Barberas – Oh Santa Claus! (Faster Claus version)
https://thehannahbarberas.bandcamp.com/album/winter-ep

Seapony – In the Bleak Midwinter
https://seapony.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-bleak-midwinter

THE PATS PATS – Christmas
https://thepatspats82.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-happy-birthday

SWANSEA SOUND – HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ME
https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com/album/happy-christmas-to-me

Foxx Bodies – SAD Xmas
https://killrockstars.bandcamp.com/album/its-hard-to-dance-when-its-cold-and-theres-no-music-kill-rock-stars-winter-holiday-album-volume-2

+/- {Plus Minus} – All the Light Left Behind
https://plusminusnyc.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-light-left-behind

The Shacks – Got To Be Christmas
https://snowflakeschristmassingles.bandcamp.com/album/gotta-be-christmas-christmas-time-is-here

The Cleaners From Venus – Christabel’s Party
https://thecleanersfromvenus.bandcamp.com/track/christabels-party

On this week’s show: Antipodean pop, from Sydney lo-fi (Jack Lee) to Melbourne twang (Partner Look) & syncopation (Great Earthquake). garage pop from Christchurch (Best Bets) and Auckland (Dirty Pixels). American indie from the jagged jangle in Philly (Honey Radar) and Portland, ME (Heaven’s Cameras) to delicate pop in Baltimore (Linda Smith) and fuzzed-out rock in Olympia (THIN VEIL). Plus French electro-pop (Grand Veymont).

See below for links to everything played…

PLAYLIST:

Best Bets – Whataworld
https://bestbets.bandcamp.com/track/whataworld-3

Dirty Pixels – Reading My Lips
https://dirtypixels.bandcamp.com/track/reading-my-lips

Heaven’s Cameras – Fiscal Weeks
https://heavenscameras.bandcamp.com/album/shutters-firing

Honey Radar – Plum Scouts
https://honeyradar.bandcamp.com/album/play-box-relay

THIN VEIL – ANIMAL
https://thinveiloly.bandcamp.com/album/demo

Jack Lee – Nice Mice
https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/album/bbq-heart

Linda Smith – Afternoon Tea
https://lindasmith2.bandcamp.com/album/i-so-liked-spring

McCookerybook & Rotifer – Not What I Intended
https://mccookerybookandrotifer.bandcamp.com/album/equal-parts-2

Partner Look – Rodeo Tragic
https://partnerlook.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-book

Great Earthquake – Bubble
https://greatearthquake.bandcamp.com/album/pandemic-rising

Fir Cone Children – Turtle Stone
https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/it-chooses-you

Royal Arch – La Nuit
https://make-me-happy.bandcamp.com/album/royal-arch-la-nuit-road-to-the-light

Moderate Rebels – I Don’t Want To Go To The Shop (Session Version)
https://modrebels.bandcamp.com/album/suspicious-behaviour-session-recordings-2021

DIE SCHIEFE BAHN – Atmungsaktiv
https://emotional-response-recs.bandcamp.com/album/6-song-demo

Grand Veymont – Les rapides bleus
https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/grand-veymont