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The Best Reissues on Bandcamp: August/September 2019
We pick out some of the most crucial reissues and retrospectives dropped recently on Bandcamp, and look at the historic tales behind them. Whether it’s West African highlife, German post-punk, golden...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Stephen Mallinder, “Um Dada”
Dadaism, an avant-garde art movement born in the wake of World War I, highlighted the inherent absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern world; Dadaist work could be both mischievous and poignant,...
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Ka Baird’s Transcendent Experimentalism
Photos by Alex Phillipe Cohen “We were called witches more than once,” Ka Baird, of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, says. “At the time, I rejected it, just because it felt very sexist. But I guess as...
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Hidden Gems: Neon Vectors, “Bigger Grooves”
In our series Hidden Gems, writers share their favorite Bandcamp discoveries. Bigger Grooves features cover artwork that many contemporary creative workers can relate to: a woman sits cross-legged...
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Big Ups: Clipping Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
“Right from the beginning, we always wanted to make a horror-themed record,” says Jonathan Snipes, a producer in the Los Angeles-based progressive noise-rap trio Clipping, alongside MC Daveed Diggs...
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Ziúr’s Sucker Punching Electronics Are A Defiant Call To Arms
Photo by Stefan Fahler Since 2016’s Taiga EP, the Berlin-based electronic artist Ziúr’s palette has expanded beyond the discord associated with experimental club music, heading toward a more colorful...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Yazz Ahmed, “Polyhymnia”
Polyhymnia, the third album from British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, has been more than five years in the making. It began after Ahmed was commissioned to write a suite that premiered at the WOW!...
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Grind Guitarist Takafumi Matsubara Battled Hand Paralysis and Came Back...
Guitarist Takafumi Matsubara should have been riding high in 2014. His band Mortalized, together since 1997, had risen to legend status on the global grindcore scene, and he was pulling double duty...
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Bandcamp Navigator, October 2019: From Neoclassical to Video Game Soundtracks
When the weather is no longer oppressively hot, I like to take the dog for a walk in the woods. After a few minutes of walking, you can almost reach a point where you’re surrounded only by nature—as...
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The Best Soul on Bandcamp: September 2019
Soul has always been a fusion of sounds, and this month’s artists reflect that dynamic history. From Ego Ella May’s jazzy sound, Neffy’s bare, acoustic melodies and Qamil’s R&B tracks, September’s...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Tawiah, “Starts Again”
Starts Again, the debut album fromLondon-based singer Tawiah, is centered around the notion of yearning. On “Borders,” over gospel-y piano and a strolling bassline, she pines for a long-distance...
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Olivia Jean Just Wants to Make Surf Music
Photography by Angelina Castillo Olivia Jean has a silent songwriting partner. If you live in Nashville, you may already know this. You may have even spotted them around town, working on music...
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On “Memphis,” Matana Roberts Explores Her Family’s Past
Photography by M. Tarantelli “I keep doing this thing where I let my curiosity lead me, and I end up in these different corners where I’m asked to do some really fascinating things,” says alto...
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Big Ups: Gatecreeper’s Chase Mason Shares His Bandcamp Favorites
Deserted, the new album from Arizona death metal quintet Gatecreeper, is a bigger, gutsier record than its predecessor, 2016’s Sonoran Depravation, and no track illustrates that better than “From the...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Compro Oro, “Suburban Exotica”
The Jazzy Belgian quintet Compro Oro—Spanish for “I Buy Gold”— play instrumental music with an Afro-Cuban tinge and an acute sense of things falling apart. Suburban Exotica, their second album,...
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Rediscover the Solo Debut of Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi
Photos by Sukita When they debuted in 1978, Yellow Magic Orchestra changed the course of Japanese music history. The trio of Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi joined together to...
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Eight Artists Defining Washington, D.C’s Experimental Scene
On the surface, Washington, DC seems to be a city of transients—waves of people flowing in and out of the area to the various tempos of congressional terms, academic contracts, and non-profit grants....
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Composer Anna Meredith Opens Up the Field of Classical Music
Anna Meredith is in her own world. So much so that when she admits, “I really don’t listen to any other music at all” multiple times during a conversation, she means it not so much as a proclamation—a...
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Iqaluit Rapper FxckMr Is on a Mission
Iqaluit, Canada rapper FxckMr—pronounced ‘fuck mister’—was born MisterLee Cloutier-Ellsworth; both of his names tell a story of family, community, and love. He was named for both his late Aunt Missy,...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Cosmic Death Metal, Techno, Jazz and More
Welcome to Essential Releases, our weekly roundup of the best music on Bandcamp. Each week, we’ll recommend crucial new albums that were released between last Friday and this Friday, plus pick an...
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