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Favourite Free Music of 2015: A – C

Liam Doyle — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:47:10 +0000

It has become a yearly tradition for us to make a big list of all our favourite the ‘name your price’ music on Bandcamp (or free ones elsewhere), and 2015 certainly didn’t disappoint. Over the next week we’ll be sharing the list in all it’s glory, starting with artists beginning with letters A-C.

Remember, while it’s always tempting to put a big fat zero for ‘name your price’ releases, you can give a little something. Bands need to eat too, and would doubtless appreciate even the smallest donation for their efforts. You’ll want them to appear in your Bandcamp collection anyway, so you’ll have to give something.

Alanna McArdle – Reticular (REVIEW) / Bedroom/Balloons (REVIEW)
(RIYL: folk, bedroom pop, sad, Sarah Winchester)

Ama Moii – Flown (REVIEW)
(RIYL: bedroom, ambient, lo-fi, soft music)

Andrew Weathers – I Am Happy When I Am Moving
(RIYL: experimental, cosmic Appalachian mountain tunes)

Animal Camera – Aniimal Crackers
(RIYL: noise pop, psychedelic ARMS)

Beverly Tender – Lord Mayor Makes 1000 Speeches
(RIYL: bedroom pop, lo-fi, Baby Mollusk, Whatever Dad)

The Bombshells – Bake Sale Hotties
(RIYL: riot grrl, The Runaways, Le Tigre)

Big Eater – In Between
(RIYL: laidback indie pop, Yo La Tengo, Mac DeMarco)

Blue Smiley – OK
(RIYL: lo-fi, fuzz rock, Alex G)

Bobby’s Oar – The Weeds in Your Garden
(RIYL: folk-punk, Among Giants, The Front Bottoms)

Boosegumps – / B-Sides (REVIEW 1 | REVIEW 2 | INTERVIEW)
(RIYL: bedroom pop, acoustic, Free Cake For Every Creature)

Brightside – The World Reversed
(RIYL: indie pop, pop-punk, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die)

Brittle Brian – Verisune
(RIYL: bedroom pop, Frankie Cosmos, Bellows)

Broken Beak – Curse Burner
(RIYL: bedroom pop, Modern Baseball)

Bryant Eugene Vazquez – Blue Hours
(RIYL: folk, lo-fi, Wes Tirey, M. Ward)

Captain Samurai – Hey Thanks Goodbye
(RIYL: indie rock, soft punk, LVL UP)

CATAPHANT – Half Dead EP
(RIYL: hip hop, experimental, pop)

Cat Be Damned – Six Songs
(RIYL: ambient, Ricky Eat Acid, the sounds of space)

Catholic Easter Colours – Not the Silence That Was There Before
(RIYL: indie pop, cinematic rock, ambient)

Cemeteries – Barrow
(RIYL: ambient, experimental, dream pop)

Clams – PDA Queen
(RIYL: lo-fi, indie pop, bedroom pop)

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Coffee Pot – &
(RIYL: fuzz rock, psych, lo-fi)

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Colour Me Brittle – The First Bad Man
(RIYL: lo-fi, jangle pop, twee indie)

Coping Skills – Everything is stupid + I Hate it
(RIYL: riot grrrls, bummer pop, Cyberbully Mom Club)

Cuddle Formation – ⊙﹏⊙ ♫･*:.｡. .｡.:*･ (demos)
(RIYL: bedroom pop, guitar loops, devotional)

We’ll be sharing a new section of the list every day this week, so be sure to check back for the complete collection. If you find something you like, or think we missed something life-changing, then why not let us know on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr or good old email.

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November Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:30:09 +0000

Here’s a playlist of all the acts we covered during November. Click on the artist’s name in the tracklisting to read the individual posts. It’s been a great month, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Tracklisting:

I Don’t Know – Tina Refnes (+ Lit Links)
If I Were a Portal – Evening Hymns
Cradle Robber – Tyler Butler and His Handsome Friends
Calvander – Mount Moriah
The Way It Is, The Way It Could Be – The Weather Station
Porch – Long Beard
Small Wind Power – Fraternal Twin
Mourning Dove – Danielle Fricke
3 – Cat Be Damned
Cold Apartment Floors – Vagabon
I Used To Be A Bird – Fairweather Currents
Drive-Thru – Honeyuck
Ghosts – The Washboard Abs
Litany – Tyler Key
Aviator Shades – Quiet Hollers
Book of Right On (Joanna Newsom cover) – Foxtails Brigade (Lit Links)
Judy Blume – Mal Devisa
So Long – Dot & Logic
A Swift Thing – EP
Stuck w/ Me – Home Lives
Close Call (Adderall Anxiety) – Shaky Shrines
Boys – Dicktations
Nothing – Strange Friends
Careful Creators – Summering
Blinding White – Vapour Night
Pull – Slow Dancing Society (Hidden Shoal compilation)
Calmest – Naps
As He Walked Into the Field – Robert Stillman
Church Bells – Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby & Rob St. John
Seven – Oh, Rose
31. No Hell – Cloud Cult

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Flash Review: Cat Be Damned

Jon Doyle — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:15:43 +0000

Cat Be Damned is Erik Phillips from Richmond, Vermont. Six Songs is just that, a short and sweet EP made up of six lush ambient tracks. The songs show a surprising amount of variation, from the melancholy Antlers-esque atmospherics of ‘1’ and the peppy bounce of ‘2’ to the floaty geological sound of ‘3’ and ‘5’, sounding like the cries of orbiting bodies, the drone and moan of cosmic traffic. You get the impression that the songs are beginnings, points of entry into a variety of different sounds Phillips will return to and flesh out into fully-realised releases. Consider us excited and waiting.

RIYL: Ambient, Ricky Eat Acid, the sounds of space.

Favourite tracks:

You can buy Six Songs on a pay-what-you-can basis from the Cat Be Damned Bandcamp page.

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