Home from tour, so other quick and dirty bandcamp Friday suggestions.
Jock Gang - Still Life
Jock Gang is BACK with yes, do you like the weirder, more fucked up side of Women, Deerhunter, or Rising Storm, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band in a K hole. Just stabbing guitars, with very pysch pop melodies. Great, underrated band.
https://jock-gang.bandcamp.com/album/still-life
Greenscreen - Your Text Here
Taking elements of Talking Heads, Orange Juice and Fela Kuti into a dancing swirl of pure blissed out fun. Horns, flutes and pulsing drums create a little world to immerse yrself in. 4 songs, in and out. Get into for the hazey ATL post punk band that I wanna play with.
https://ropebridge.bandcamp.com/album/your-text-here-ep
Arp - New Pleasures
I absolutely loved Arp's last album Zebra, filled with amazing fusion, new age and Japanese ambient. And Arp just announced new LP, which I am highly anticipating. The first song released feels very City Pop along the lines of Hosono, YMO, Mariah and Dip In The Pool. I'm very curious to see where the rest of the LP feels. It's very much the sound of the city, unlike Zebra which felt very of the earth. Anyway hyped!
https://arpetc.bandcamp.com/album/new-pleasures
Maraudeur - Puissance 4
Much has been said about this fantastic LP, and I don't have much to add, but that this is an excellent nervey German post punk band in the lineage of Crash Course in Science, some ESG boogie and have a similar vibe to Automatic. Don't sleep on Feel It Records repress.
https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/album/puissance-4-2
Hydroplane - Hydroplane
Efficient Space is one of the best labels going right now, and here they are reissueing the self-titled debut LP by Hydroplane. From the ashes of Cats Miaow indie pop comes tape loops, minimal chords, hushed vocals and triphopish drums that make up this LP. Feeling like it comes from rural psychedelia scene of Flying Saucer Attack, Light, And Movietone of the early 90s. This LP drifts, sways and envelopes you in this world, how it slowly baths you in sheets of warm noise. It's kinda like Jefre Cantu Ledsema, Mazzy Star and Bowery Electric made a record together with the help of Lou Reed.
https://hydroplaneband.bandcamp.com/album/hydroplane
Amy Reid - Dome Trax
5 tracks of beautiful new age made during an artist residency in Maryland, out on Sound as Language. These 5 tracks take you on a solo journey to the inner self with lovely synth pads, pianos and organs droning....good stiff.
https://amyreid.bandcamp.com/album/dome-trax
