13 Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday; September 2024
Portland is making a strong showing this Bandcamp Friday, along with some incredible shoegaze, drone, thoughtful neoclassical piano, and the unbelievable return of Monolake.
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Bandcamp Friday is upon us once again, when independent and forward-thinking bands, musicians, producers, and labels unleash a cataclysm of intriguing sounds and musical experiments to get lost in. For music lovers and sound obsessives, it's like having Christmas, New Year's Day, and Halloween happen once a month. The same could be said for musicians and labels, as the platform waives all fees for the day.
There's an absolute avalanche of intriguing new releases coming out for September 2024 Bandcamp Friday. Portland, Oregon is making a strong showing, with a treasure trove of interesting electronic music coming out of the City of Roses. Then there's the fuzzy warbles of Airflow, a cause for much celebration for fans of Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children. Finally, there's one more album of eternal Ambient music from the impossibly-reliable Beacon Sound.
Finally, there's Grade A Shoegaze from '90s shoegaze supremacists Dummy, a bunch of horror soundtracks, and some thoughtful neoclassical piano from Houston's Slow Meadow. There's a lot to explore, so let's get into it.
13 Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday, September 6 2024
Airflow - Head in the Clouds
Portland's Airflow turn in a delicious album of fuzzy warbles and chilled beats, recorded entirely with analog hardware. Give this a listen if you're a fan of Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children.
Colossal Letdown - Dimension Collapse
Colossal Letdown absolutely does not live up to his name on Dimension Collapse, a longform drone meditation that gradually dissolves into noise, hiss, and static, like ice floes crumbling into the sea.
Dummy - Free Energy
Dummy continue their quest for shoegaze supremacy on their first album in a few years. It's absolutely incredible - a kaleidoscopic swirl of burning Farfisas and motorik beats.
Justin Burning - Songs From The Orange Book
It's getting to be the most wonderful time of year, when witches ride on dark winds while ghosts and specters play peek-a-boo 'round skeletal trees. Songs From The Orange Book is a creepy, evocative invocation of the season, featuring autumnal poetry over creeping pianos and 80s drum machines. Worth it for the cover art, alone.
Arsenal Mikebe - DRUM MACHINE
Absolutely riotous album of tribal techno and percussive mayhem on Uganda's Nyege Nyege Tapes.
Monolake - Studio
Robert Henke parts ways with his signature pristine techno sound for something far more exploratory on Studio, an album of twisted metal and moire patterns, all backed by Monolake's legendary sound design and production.
Maya Ongaku - Electronic Phantoms
Gorgeous atmospheric synth pop with some unexpected late-night Twin Peaks roadhouse vibes.
Purple Decades - Fraction of Centuries
Patient, gorgeous album of subtle Ambient electronics from Portland's ever-essential Beacon Sound.
Repeated Viewing - STRIP THEIR FLESH + THE ARTEFACT
First new Repeated Viewing music in two years from the incredible Spun Out Of Control. () is a double bill of bloody, burning psych folk malevolence. Like The Arborea Institute conducting a seance at a megalith.
Slow Meadow - By the Ash Tree/Upstream Dream
Two longform compositions of gentle, delicate neoclassical piano. Heartbreaking, tender, romantic, nostalgic, it's the perfect soundtrack for slanted sunshine and golden leaves.
Sumner - Cyberpunk Disko Sessions 2
Sumner's second Cyberpunk Disco Session is a longform, guided dancefloor meditation of whirling IDM, brutalist jungle, razor-sharp drum 'n bass, and disembodied vocals. Recorded at Heterodox Record's ongoing Cyberpunk Disko sessions.
Susuma Yokota - Acid Mt. Fuji (30th Anniversary Edition)
Susuma Yokota's stone-cold ambient techno classic sounds even more frighteningly ahead of its time 30 years after its genesis, as heard on this stunning 30th Anniversary remaster.
Henning Zinoviev & Floating Candles - Die Nude For Satan
Rare lost soundtrack from the obscure Henning Zinoviev and his equally mysterious backing band, Floating Candles gets an essential blood red vinyl repress. A riot of harpsichords and fuzz guitars, flutes and mellotrons, Die Nude For Satan is like an alternate soundtrack for Lucio Fulci's The House By The Cemetery.
This article originally appeared on Micro Genre Music.
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