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Meet the Artists Leading Italy’s Future Jazz Scene
The Italian Peninsula is full of cities and provinces that have contributed to the rich history of Italian jazz over the past century—from Torino, where Enrico Rava performed with Chet Baker and Bobby...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Cat-Inspired Synthwave, Folk, Dance 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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Ultrademon’s Electronic Music Moves Out of the Club and Into the Castle
To anyone following the work of the DJ and producer Ultrademon, the last few years may have seemed like quiet ones. In the early part of the decade, she released a slew of albums, EPs, and DJ...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Deathprod, “Occulting Disk”
Occulting Disk is massive and tense—patiently, glacially aggressive. It’s also Deathprod composer Helge Sten’s first proper LP under that moniker in 15 years, a 10-track collection of undulating...
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The Best Metal on Bandcamp: October 2019
Happy October! The death metal was very good this month. Five of the eight releases highlighted below fall under that broad genre umbrella, though they’re stylistically diverse in their...
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Beyond London: Northern England’s Thriving Electronic Underground In Eight LPs
London remains an alluring proposition for young musicians, a fact that has had a ripple effect in other parts of the UK. In the south, there are no major cities within a hundred-mile radius, and the...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Shana Falana, “Darkest Light”
Since her 2012 debut, Shana Falana has been a stalwart voice of the Hudson Valley’s modern indie scene: a frequent presence at local shows, a Kingston-area DJ, and the voice of a colorful shoegaze...
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Acid Test: Fractured Pop, An Imaginary “Avatar” Soundtrack, and More
Bandcamp’s outer limits continue to be a rewarding place for psychedelia, experimental club music, noise, vaporwave, and the wholly uncategorizable. In this volume of Acid Test, we look at...
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High Scores: Gaijin Blues Soundtrack Imaginary JRPGs of Their Own Design
Photos by Michal Wdowikowski High Scores is generally a column about video game soundtracks and the artists who compose them. This month’s installment bends the rules a bit, with a duo who love video...
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Billy Woods Raps From the Shadows
Photography by Jed Rosenberg Earlier this year, Billy Woods dropped one of 2019’s best albums. Then, he did it again. The first of those was Hiding Places, a collaborative LP produced entirely by...
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Jasper Lotti’s “Dystopia Pop”
Photos by Isha Dipika Walia On her debut EP XOskeleton, Jasper Lotti creates a soundtrack for the anxieties of the digital age, threading lyrics about connection and disassociation through pop...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: The Deer, “Do No Harm”
At the start of the decade, Austin’s The Deer arrived after an ampersand—they were the loose accompaniment behind Grace Park, a promising folk singer with a wounded sense of wonder. In the years...
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The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp: October 2019
Because electronic music is often consumed in places where songs by multiple artists are blended together by a single DJ, we can sometimes forget how good those individual artists are in their own...
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Big Ups: Anamanaguchi Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Anamanaguchi entered the cultural landscape in a neon flash. Over the course of just a few years, beginning in 2009, they released their debut album, scored Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game,...
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Art as Catharsis Chronicles the Diversity and Depth of Australia’s Underground
“I was going to all these local shows and seeing these incredible bands playing to 20-30 people,” says Sydney-based musician Lachlan R. Dale, who founded the label Art As Catharsis in 2011 to give the...
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The New Sound of Pop Music from Latin America
Illustration by Noopur Choksi The Latin American pop underground is a massive, celebratory space—a world where popular global genres like rock, folk, electropop, and reggaeton thrive, mingling with...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Itasca, “Spring”
Itasca’s (born Kayla Cohen) new album Spring arrives three years after the airy folk of her third album Open to Chance. Written while Cohen was living in a century-old adobe house in New Mexico,...
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On “Trophy,” Kate Davis Leaves the Conservatory Behind
Photography by Erica Snyder When songwriter Kate Davis was still in college, she approached her parents with a decision that had been a long time in the making. “I’m getting kind of sick of this,” she...
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Small Towns and Strangers: A Primer on Folk Opera
“Folk opera” sounds like an oxymoron; it conjures images of a campfire song circle performed by mezzo sopranos in a lavish theatre to a black-tie audience. But the “opera” in “folk opera” just refers...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Da Lata, “Birds”
Since its inception in 1998, the London-based group Da Lata has been built around the core of Patrick Forge and Christian Franck, two musicians who had begun playing together almost six years earlier....
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