It’s been a good weekend in the Bandcamp salt mines. Here’s some more: demo synthpop, early ’80s-style indie, trollclash and a young pop talent.
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Category: Indie
Sulky Belgian art students in basements dying of TB.
Reviews: Desert Dollhouse, Chuck, Soft Touch (2016).
Atmospheric dream-pop, indie pop and soulful R&B.
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Reviews: Massenhysterie (2015), The Big Sun, Dyan (2016).
Shouty electropunk, indie pop and cinematic folk.
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Reviews: Deerful, Brandy Kills, Milan (2016).
Political indie pop, goth rock with tunes and perfect synthpop.
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Reviews: Optiphonal Wonder Machine, Coupons, Lich (2016).
Art collective synthpop, ’90s-style indie rock and a remarkable instrumental album.
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Electronic reviews: Boy Harsher, Syrian, Kuoko, Metroland (2016).
Post-punk synth, futurepop and synthpop.
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Reviews: Vanguard, Dark Narrows, Navvi (2016).
EBM, goth-aspiring new wave and dreampop.
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Synthpop: BOO (Battery Operated Orchestra), Zürich ’81, Deerful (2016).
Three stone winners today. A pleasing selection.
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Reviews: Dark Colour, The War Between, The Nursery, Selves (2016).
’90s-style sample-ridden indie dance rock, catchy amateur punkish indie pop, melodic pop songs in an indie band with synths, American Britpop.
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Reviews: nTTx, Foot Spa, Kites With Lights, Stars Crusaders, Kepler.
Two industrial, one post-punk, one synthpop, one indiest indie.
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Reviews: Növö, Stop The Wheel, Binaural Silence (2016).
The new release pile on Bandcamp is more work than it looks.
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An ’80s Australian indie rock band you should have heard of: the Arctic Circles.
Australian ‘80s indie rock band the Arctic Circles never made a huge impact and remain mired in obscurity, but their two records (the single “Angel” in 1985, the mini-LP Time in 1987 featuring “Wasp”) were well-received, did okay on an indie level and you couldn’t get away from them on public radio. The style is the ‘60s garage punk stuff popular in Australia at the time. Still sounds pretty fresh in 2016.
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Bandcamp synthpop: Tentacles, Mimus, Bestman (2016).
Reviews: Amy’s Arms, Foster Body, Uranium Club (2016).
Today we hit the Bandcamp for various recommendations of mates’ mates’ bands. Send yours in! At worst it’ll be ignored.
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Links.
“If you think it’s about the music, you’ve already failed.” The pop culture legacy business, and why Kurt Cobain is still a huge star.
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I was right at the time. Nineties indie rock sucked. Except Dave Graney, of course.
Just rereading the Dave Graney interview I did in late 1992 for Party Fears. This was when no fucker cared about Dave Graney, after his indie hipness fronting the Moodists in the 1980s and his artier cowboy rock’n’roll in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
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George Matzkov’s tracks from lost 1980s Perth alternative bands.
George Matzkov, Perth scenester, Stems roadie and founder of Zero Hour Records, is putting out a book, to be released soonish: Way Out West: The West Australian Alternative Music Scene 1976-1989. To accompany it, he’s got a Soundcloud of tracks from cassettes and records of the day. If you’re from those times you’ll delight in this.
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Jesus and Mary Chain “Psychocandy” 30th Anniversary
It is rather frightening to think that it’s now over thirty years since Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain graced the airwaves. Well, frightening to people of a certain age such as this reviewer.
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The Charlatans: Modern Nature (2015).
As one of the great British indie synth-rock bands (hey, just call it “Madchester”) of the 90s, The Charlatans, left an indelible impression on
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Last Words (EP) by Muzzle
“Last Words” (2014), is the debut EP for young Fremantle independent rock band, Muzzle, with three-piece Daniel Panizza on bass, Daniel Prince on drums,
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Radio Birdman Boxed Set (2014)
Courtesy of our friends at The Dwarf your author had the opportunity to see the legendary Radio Birdman as long as finger was put
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Pop Will Eat Itself, Hi-Fi Bar (Melbourne Australia), September 07, 2014
(PWEI at Fortitude Valley, image by Jeff Ram Photographer) After three years of a band having a ‘new’ lineup one would think that they’re
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Pop Will Eat Itself – New Noise Designed By A Sadist (2011)
With their last and most successful general release album released in 1994 (Dos Dedos Mis Amigos), it is a long time between releases for
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Keeping up with the kids.
Now listening to The Quietus Radio. Like the magazine, it’s actually decent and worth your time. God help me if I start following popular
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Laura MacFarlane, Hong Kong In The Sixties, Hissing At Swans – Betsey Trotswood, Tue 7 Dec 2010
The Betsey Trotswood is a tiny little pub in Farringdon that sells actual beer instead of the fizzy piss found most places basement indie
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John Peel’s Festive Sixty-Four.
Now here’s a remarkable work of cultural preservation: 64 gigabytes of Peel Sessions and shows as BitTorrent. That’s about twenty days’ music solid. You
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And this one’s with Martin Gambie when he was doing Mardi Picasso. So whatever happened to Martin?
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My first thought was: “Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey will be more than a little annoyed.”
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Swirl call it a day
After 12 years in music, three albums and countless EPs, Sydney indie-rock band Swirl have called it a day and gone their separate ways.
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Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine/Jim’s Super Stereoworld/Abdoujaparov – Mean Fiddler, London, Fri 15 Nov 2002
review by Teqkiller Met up with Vicky and Nick (rhyming potential is overwhelming here) in the Wetherspoons that’s where the Marquee used to be
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