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  "More lo-fi perfection from Girlsville! Cubs songs redone by Portland one-man-band Jacyn Nickle in honour of Cub’s recently passed drummer Valeria Fellini."
  -Kris, SUPER SUPER SOUNDS
  Link: supersupersounds.tumblr.com/post/738810576700112896/becky-the-politicians-play-the-early-hits-of
  
  A PARTY WITH BECKY & THE POLITICIANS JACYN NICKLE
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  www.50thirdand3rd.com/a-party-with-becky-the-politicians- jacyn-nickle/
  
  becky & the politicians play the early hits of cub
  
  jacyn nickle (collate, dress forms, threx, conditioner disco group, the cinks) is a one person self contained scene from portland, oregon. becky & the politicians is one of jacyn's myriad of projects, which are somehow all brilliantly worthwhile whilst remaining one of the best kept secrets in diy punk.
  
  when i lived in the pacific nw, the first show i went to was collate and uk gold up in olympia. collate were between drummers and matt murillo (uk gold) filled in on drums for collate and swapped to bass for uk gold. we were sitting around chatting and drinking and matt was like "have you heard becky & the politicians they are like the silicon teens but doing punk covers."
  
  when i went home i listened to it and loved what i heard and went on to comp their cover of the orchids "if boys got pregnant" on v/a - be gay, do crime! , and also comped em a couple other times as well as the cinks and threx.
  
  2020 hit right about the same time, and so putting together comps became a different animal and i heavily relied on bedroom projects and fake bands that were all one person., archival material, and stuff that had been recorded but shelved if it was a recent full band recording.
  
  jacyn was cranking out the hits with a kinks cover band called the cinks, and threx ep's which sounded like the earliest wbmx house music on the first ep, and was stereolab influenced on the follow up.
  
  the pandemic hit some pretty thriving local music scenes hard. in portland alone, the mighty lithics were a casualty, and frankly so was a lot of portland, oregon's burdgeoning, sh1t-hot post punk scene, a scene that was on the ascent just prior to the pandemic.
  
  portland was having one of the more cohesive and exciting moments for weirdo punk sounds bursting out of one city, something i hadn't truly witnessed since san francisco circa 2002 (numbers, erase errata, coachwhips) i was beginning to wonder if it could even happen again with the way the consumption of music had changed. 
  
  we'll never really know what could have been, but luckily for all of us collate and becky & the politicians survived the pandemic.
  
  last september the diy indie pop world lost valeria fellini, the original drummer of vancouver's 90's "cuddlecore" trio cub. i was shaken by the news and did what we do in the digital age and shared my favorite cub music as a celebration in her memory.
  
  jacyn broke out the 8-track cassette recorder and recorded a tribute to the "early hits of cub" and quietly digitally self released last november. they are brilliant recordings that capture what made cub so special and it also makes for such a touching tribute.
  
  written on the release page was simply:
  
  "dedicated to Valeria Fellini, Rhythm innovator."
  
  i sent jacyn a message saying how much i loved it and jacyn said "i thought of you when i put that out" and so we decided to give this recording life on a limited edition cassette. complete with a lot of lowercase lettering and cuddlecore 94 aesthetic inspiration.
  
  becky & the politicians "play the early hits of cub" cassette is in pre-order now, and releases on valentines day 2024. it was recorded in october 2023 on 8 track cassette, mixed analog to CD recorder.
  
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