Carry On Bandcamping: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Sam from For The Rabbits

Name: Sam Cottis
Website: www.fortherabbits.net
Bandcamp Collection: https://bandcamp.com/fortherabbits

recommendations:

https://specialistsubject.bandcamp.com/album/furlough-your-dreams

1. Tyrannosaurus Dead - Post Holiday Dead Song
Apparently the first thing I ever bought on Bandcamp, this was from a split 7" Tyrannosaurus Dead released with Joanna Gruesome. Tyrannosaurus Dead were a short lived but excellent band, who fit beautifully into the Odd Box label. I just checked and they split up five years ago, which is making me feel very old indeed.

2. Why Bonnie - In Water
Why Bonnie are a band from the uber-cool town of Austin, Texas who are now signed to Fat Possum, back in 2018 they released a couple of brilliant EPs, including this one. A bit bleak, a bit beautiful and entirely wonderful.

3. Let's Buy Happiness - Chants For Friends
Sometimes you hear a band and you're convinced they're going to be huge and loved across the world, and sometimes you're completely wrong. Despite the fact they never became the biggest band since The Beatles, I still love Let's Buy Happiness all the same.

4. Squirrel Flower - Contact Sports
Back in the day before Squirrel Flower, aka Ella O'Connor Williams, was a critically acclaimed global megastar, she self-released a couple of brilliant EPs while studying for her degree. Guaranteed to make you question what you spent all your time at university doing?

5. Savage Mansion - Weird Country
One of my most recent purchases, Savage Mansion sound like Pavement if they spent a lot more time people watching in Glasgow. This was their latest offering through the brilliant Lost Map record, who get to spend their lockdown on the Isle Of Eigg, which sounds delightfully idyllic.

6. Specialist Subject Records - Furlough Your Dreams
This is probably cheating as it's seventeen bands in one, yet as my unofficial heroes of lockdown I had to send people Specialist Subjects way. They've been putting on a series of amazing "Instagram live" shows full of great bands, plant eating in jokes and lots of people feeling sad about being stuck in the house.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Ned from No Love For Ned

Name: Ned
Website: www.noloveforned.com
Bandcamp collection: www.bandcamp.com/noloveforned

recommendations:

1. Daniel Romano has been dropping a new album every Wednesday during quarantine on bandcamp. A couple weeks back he released a cover of Bob Dylan's 1982 album 'Infidels' imagining what it would have sounded like if he recorded it with the Latino punk band The Plugz from L.A. who backed Dylan for his first Letterman appearance around that time.

2. Markus Acher of the Notwist again teams up with Saya and Takashi Ueni of Tenniscoats for a third album as Spirit Fest. Some of the tracks still sound like an acoustic Notwist album (a most excellent idea) while others are more gentle psych-folk.

3. The second album from the Australian band Sachet finally arrived in March after nearly a year since first teasing us with it's lead single. Flying Nun jangle and harmonies that often veer off in weird punky angles.

4. There wasn't really a need to reference a specific release from Glenn Donaldson's indie pop project The Reds, Pinks and Purples. Undoubtedly by the time you finish reading this there will be a new 2-3 song EP up and they're all magic. His blissed out jangle remind me of the Field Mice and Orange Cake Mix..

5. Punky, love-lorn indie pop from Vancouver that contrast the nasal lead vocals of DJ On (Thee Ahs) with sweet backing vocals.

6. Post-punk band from four Bristol women who examine sexual and gender politics with a good dose of humor.