I've written this piece on Substack about the mythology surrounding success in independent music: who gets heard, who gets ignored, who gets to look inevitable, and what happens to everyone else. dustsucker.substack.com/p/apologies-...

bending backwards - i see you from here 1st single from debut album "still and quiet brother are you still and quiet" (PCC0024DR) alt rock / dream pop / noise-rock bendingbackwards.bandcamp.com/track/i-see-... <3

sssiv - all the time (from "sssiv 2", May 8, PCC0023DR) dreampop - neo-psych - indie folk (copenhagen / los angeles) sssiv.bandcamp.com/track/all-th... single release today ♡

@thishouseband.bsky.social - soft rains will come with G.W. Sok (The Ex) art punk / noise rock / experimental (copenhagen / amsterdam) debut album out today ♡ thishousecph.bandcamp.com/album/soft-r...

“I come away from Soft Rains Will Come believing [G.W. Sok from The Ex) got just as much of a fire under him now as he did forty years ago. This House continues one of the most important threads of Sok’s music career” Thanks!! @thishouseband.bsky.social album release tomorrow…

orcd.co/softrainswil... Our album is out this Friday! This House - Soft Rains Will Come - Out March 20th via: @pinkcottoncandyrec.bsky.social (DK) @ramblerecords.bsky.social (AUS) & Red Wig @fleekwigdepot (DE) #thishouse #gwsok #theex #postpunk #tremendogaraje

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" (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...

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-...

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

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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...

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. dustsucker.substack.com/p/dustsucker...

“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...

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. dustsucker.substack.com/p/pink-cotto...

"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 +++

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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. www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/post/14-grea...

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...

Thanks to @sun13music.bsky.social for including Taxidermy in this round up!

Learned earlier today that @thewiremagazine.bsky.social's call for financial support was happily a success, seeing them through the next few months at the least, and that they've set up a permanent donation link if you'd like to chip in further, so here's the QR code for same:

hot take: if you succeed in music and don’t use your new powers to help other artists up that same steep ladder you climbed, you’re a part of the problem

CPH-based experimental noise-rock act Taxidermy's "Let Go" is out: “Taxidermy have found the fertile middle ground where emotional authenticity meets sonic adventure (...) Let Go is an impressive sophomore release" (Discipline Mag). taxidermydk.bandcamp.com/album/let-go

Written a blog post on Dustsucker about the best new records from 2025 I’ve come across during April and early May. Also updated the music directory. Releases from @anothertimbre.bsky.social, @ad93rec.bsky.social, @feltelabel.bsky.social, and more. www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/blog

If GY!BE, Trompe le Monde-era Pixies, Slint and Helmet made a track together, we wouldn’t be surprised if it sounded fairly similar to what we hear in Taxidermy’s latest single, 'You Are Here Now' - out today: taxidermydk.bandcamp.com/track/you-ar...

Zeki Jindyl, "STRETCH//RELATIONS": ambient, avant-rock, post-minimalism, spiritual jazz, doom metal, alt R&B, progressive electronic... Out today🖤: zekijindyl.bandcamp.com/album/stretc... "might just be one of the most eclectic and original voices in modern music" (Everything is Noise, US)

We had the honour of @normanrecords.com featuring Homesickness’ recent release "Anamnesis" as their Album of the Day yesterday. They're describing it as "a lilting folk and ambient jazz opus (...) blending Laurel Canyon folk with the stirring drone-folk of Lankum".

I (Nikolaj) made a blog (and sort of a music directory) on the new PCC website titled "Dustsucker" (yes, named after Bark Psychosis). Wrote about what I consider the best 20 albums of 2025 so far, including some exciting new Danish releases: www.pinkcottoncandyrecords.com/blog

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

On Saturday, Quiet Sonia premiered lots of new material live at Pakhuset (Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark) - chamber folk, post-punk, american primitivism, shoegaze.....: youtu.be/deyrsNWQbEE

Fans of experimental noise-rock/math-rock/post-punk: Taxidermy, whose previous EP was praised by Outside Noise and Rosy Overdrive, are back with a new single on PCC, and the quality is - never trust a label manager, I know, but seriously... - through the roof: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIr...

Today we're releasing @homesickness.bsky.social's "Anamnesis". Spirited ambient flute and string improvisations, ghostly field recordings, haunting low-key singer-songwriter folk, vibrant orchestrated folk-rock, and sudden unexpected avant-garde outbursts. homesickness1.bandcamp.com/album/anamne...

Video premiere today for Córdoba/Ciurkot's "Aeromonas Hydrophilia". ⌛🌹🌫️🤍 “recalls experimental pioneers like Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, delivering an electro-acoustic journey that feels both timeless and fleeting” - ADSR Collective (CA) www.youtube.com/watch?v=29XJ...

@homesickness.bsky.social releases "Anamnesis" this Friday and we’ve had it printed on a beautiful 180g vinyl (black and white marble) with original artwork inlays by lead singer/composer, Malthe Junge. Chamber-folk/post-rock/avant-rock bliss. homesickness1.bandcamp.com/album/anamne...

#RedPlanet next up it’s Taxidermy #Impending + new indierock record dropping May 16 via @pinkcottoncandyrec.bsky.social + #NP WSUM 91.7fm MadisonWi wsum.org

He's. A. Full on. Nazi.

Been a long time since we’ve heard from Kid Spatula. Excited

Zeki Jindyl's second single 'Wounded' is out today. It has an absolutely mind-blowing premiere on @everythingisnoise.bsky.social, who go as far as to say that Zeki 'might just be one of the most eclectic and original voices in modern music'😍❤️ everythingisnoise.net/premieres/ze...

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Long live The Tubs. One of the best bands in the world today. Can’t wait to put this on repeat

This Friday we're releasing a movingly mournful, fluid and warm improvisational composition by Zeki Zindyl (on this track particularly excelling on the EWI), situated in an astral-projected atmosphere between ambient jazz, alt-R&B and electronic music - here's a teaser: #ewi #experimentalmusic