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Dustsucker (Blog) | PCC Dustsucker is a fiercely independent music blog, indie music directory and newsletter focused on overlooked, alternative, and experimental releases from across the globe.

also records from @transgressive.bsky.social, @ad93rec.bsky.social and @room40.bsky.social. also available for reading on PCC's website: www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/dustsucker

Dustsucker #6 - 12 Bandcamp picks and three notable mentions (January/February 2026) Winter turbulence, new beginnings, and the music that cut through...

new dustsucker post! fav albums / EP's from january / february 2026...... records from @tapeterecords.bsky.social, @languageinstinct.bsky.social, @meritoriorec.bsky.social, @editionsmego.bsky.social, @westernvinyl.bsky.social, and much more.....

dustsucker.substack.com/p/dustsucker... <3

THIS HOUSE - "Burned House" (Official video) YouTube video by Tremendo Garaje

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_kO...

this house - "burned house" (feb 27)

art punk / noise rock / experimental (copenhagen/amsterdam)

debut album "Soft Rains Will Come" out March 20 (PCC0022VR)

thanks to @everythingisnoise.bsky.social and tremendo garage for premiering the track <3

thishousecph.bandcamp.com/track/burned...

As it Reels, by Catcase 10 track album

catcase - "as it reels" (PCC0021) - album out today

CPH-based jangle, sophisti-pop, doom pop

thanks for listening <3

catcase.bandcamp.com/album/as-it-...

A Ring, by Catcase track by Catcase

catcase - "a ring" (feb 6)

jangle rock / post-punk / indie pop (copenhagen)

debut album "as it reels" out feb 20 (PCC0021)

catcase.bandcamp.com/track/a-ring-2

thanks!

Dustsucker’s 100 Best Albums of 2025 - Part II: 36-75 The second instalment of Dustsucker’s favourite albums of 2025, featuring numbers 36–75. Independent Bandcamp releases of all genres alongside some of the year’s bigger alternative releases.

and available on PCC's website as well: www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/post/dustsuc...

also featuring releases from @amuletoftears.bsky.social, @bornlosersrecords.bsky.social, @handdrawndracula.bsky.social and @wejazzhelsinki.bsky.social. thanks for the music <3

Dustsucker’s 100 Best Albums of 2025 - Part II: 36-75 The second instalment of Dustsucker’s favourite albums of 2025, featuring numbers 36–75. Independent Bandcamp releases of all genres alongside some of the year’s bigger alternative releases.

part II of Dustsucker’s favourite releases of 2025 is now up featuring releases from @w1nspear.bsky.social, @perpetualdoom.bsky.social, @craftedsounds.bsky.social, @numerogroup.bsky.social, and much more: dustsucker.substack.com/p/dustsucker...

Dustsucker’s 100 Best Albums of 2025 - Part I: 76-100 First post in the big year-end list, gathering all the releases that made the strongest impression on me throughout the year. We'll begin from numbers 76–100.

part I of Dustsucker’s 100 favourite albums & EPs of 2025 is now up, featuring releases from @meritoriorec.bsky.social, @theleaflabel.com, @4ad.com, @tonalunion.bsky.social, @anothertimbre.bsky.social, and much more.

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Enter This House to Hear A "Man Joke"! - Everything Is Noise We're happy to premiere the début single of international post-punk experimentalists This House, "Man Joke"!

written premiere at @everythingisnoise.bsky.social: everythingisnoise.net/premieres/en...

Man Joke, by This House track by This House

“Man Joke” - the first single from This House

an off-kilter pulse, scraped guitar noise, and G.W. Sok (The Ex) tracing a relationship coming apart (inspired by a poem by Prévert)

out now via PCC / Ramble / Red Wig

thishousecph.bandcamp.com/track/man-jo...

Pink Cotton Candy 2025 Round-Up Eight very different releases this year - ambient, IDM, chamber-folk, post-rock, dreampop, etc - and some notes on the work, the community, and the strange little label we’re building.

I've written a small overview of the year at Pink Cotton Candy - our releases, concerts, initiatives, a few teasers for next year, some thoughts on sustainable music consumption, and more.
Thanks for reading.

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yc, by Young Couple 8 track album

"yc" by Young Couple is out

post-rock/dreampop debut album from the Copenhagen-based quintet

“yc” carries a nocturnal, urban atmosphere: music for headphones, for late nights, richly layered, detailed - collective and patient...

youngcouple.bandcamp.com/album/yc

Mon 9pm UK @6towns.co.uk DAB/online/app/speaker Ft album Optic Sink + @neonkittens.bsky.social Clutter via @pnkslm.bsky.social This House via @pinkcottoncandyrec.bsky.social BKPM ONYON Mont Loser Kotskat Grow Horns The Ticks +++ #nowave #postpunk #noiserock #punk #shoegaze #experimental #indie +++

Dustsucker #5 - 14 Bandcamp picks and 11 notable mentions (Sep/Oct 2025) A carefully hand-picked selection of recent Bandcamp releases - discovered or put out during the autumn of 2025 - featuring a handful of new obsessions.

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Dustsucker #5: Best new indie & experimental albums on Bandcamp (Sep/Oct 2025) 14 of the best new indie & experimental albums plus 11 notable mentions from Sep/Oct 2025 - a hand-picked Bandcamp selection curated by the Dustsucker blog and Pink Cotton Candy Records.

new post up on Dustsucker - featuring music from @gonerrecords.bsky.social, @quindirecords.bsky.social, @4ad.com, @talitres-official.bsky.social, @subpop.bsky.social, and much more. check out the Substack as well.

www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/post/dustsuc...

Technicolored Eyes, by Catcase track by Catcase

catcase's debut single, a slice of big music doom pop, drawing inspiration from “The Church’s Priest = Aura era, the Japanese horror-game composer Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill in particular), Underworld, and a good measure of Smashing Pumpkins” catcase.bandcamp.com/track/techni...

Isn't anything, by Young Couple track by Young Couple

Last Friday, we released Young Couples’ second single, “Isn’t Anything,” from their upcoming album, "yc": a widescreen dream pop ballad with echoes of The Blue Nile’s "Hats", Mew’s “Comforting Sounds,” and - inevitably, given the title - My Bloody Valentine: youngcouple.bandcamp.com/track/isnt-a...

As part of celebrating 5 years / 20 releases, I wrote a critical yet constructive “manifesto” on sustainability, DIY, solidarity, fair culture & platform capitalism. Read here: drive.google.com/file/d/15ODc...

Like a Leaf Opening to the Sky: 5×20 (Echoes from Copenhagen’s Otherlands), by PinkCottonCandy 20 track album

To mark the label’s 5th anniversary and 20 releases, we’re putting out a digital Bandcamp compilation - with all proceeds going to humanitarian relief in Gaza (Palestinian Medical Relief Society): pinkcottoncandy.bandcamp.com/album/like-a...

As the leaves unfold, by Young Couple track by Young Couple

Young Couple release their debut single “As the leaves unfold” today on PCC - experimental dream pop and neo-psychedelia with subtle echoes of early-00s indietronica and trip-hoppy post-rock (we definitely hear some Dif Juz and Bark Psychosis): youngcouple.bandcamp.com/track/as-the...

We're hosting two label nights in Denmark to celebrate 5 years and 20 releases. We’ll be playing at Stengade (Copenhagen) on October 2nd, and at Institut for X (Aarhus) on October 9th, together with Homesickness (chamber-folk/post-rock) and Ignacio Córdoba (ambient/free improv). <3

16 New 2025 Albums (Discovered in July/August) + 10 Honorable Mentions A recommendation of 26 releases in total from the summer and early autumn of 2025.

Also covering releases from @bornlosersrecords.bsky.social, @xlrecordings.bsky.social, @dominorecordco.bsky.social, @matadorrecords.bsky.social and @analogicalforce.bsky.social. The full post is available on PCC's website: www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/post/16-best...

16 New 2025 Albums (Discovered in July/August) + 10 Honorable Mentions 26 albums that kept me company this summer – from feminist art punk to ambient folk, glitchy indietronica, shoegaze hybrids, and a lot in between.

New blog post up on Dustsucker (website and Substack), covering 20+ new releases from labels such as @deviltowntapes.bsky.social, @pastinside.bsky.social, @w1nspear.bsky.social, @transgressive.bsky.social, @mondoj.bsky.social, and much more: dustsucker.substack.com/p/16-new-202...

Absent Friend 2: Nikolaj Bruus of Quiet Sonia, My Tjau is Kapow About growing up post-rock in the Danish 2000s, at least two very inspired bands that never made releases, the Lo-Fi Festival, and more.

An in-depth interview with Nikolaj Bruus, who runs the day-to-day operations of the record label, about his musical projects over the years, recording techniques, Denmark's underground music scene, Talk Talk and Bark Psychosis, and much more: absentfriend.substack.com/p/absent-fri...

Also covering releases from @wejazzhelsinki.bsky.social, @w1nspear.bsky.social, @warprecords.bsky.social, @roughtraderecords.bsky.social, @subpop.bsky.social, @morrmusic.bsky.social, and more♥️

14 Great New Albums of 2025 (May-June) + 15 honorable mentions A personal selection of favorite albums and EPs from 2025, released (or discovered) in May and June. Covers everything from free jazz, ambient, synthpop, and shoegaze to American primitivism, IDM, tec...

New post up on our label-blog, Dustsucker, covering new releases from @nightschoolrecords.bsky.social, @deviltowntapes.bsky.social, @craftedsounds.bsky.social, @amuletoftears.bsky.social, @nyahhrecords.bsky.social, and much more.

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No Weeping Veils The Sun, by Tettix Hexer x Quiet Sonia 5 track album

Release today: Tettix Hexer’s reinterpretations of Quiet Sonia’s acclaimed debut EP, "Wild and Bitter Fruits" - plunderphonics and epic collage meet avant-folk and shoegaze in devotional sunshine-blasted melancholy: quietsonia.bandcamp.com/album/no-wee...