Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

really like this album reviewed on pitchfork today:

Household - Items
http://household.bandcamp.com/
(free to stream, $3 to download)

female postpunk with short catchy songs

That thing I linked to is a 'spoof' of some sort apparently. I thought it was pretty good to be honest.

great instrumental beat record:

http://manmantis.bandcamp.com/album/cities-without-houses

sample-heavy but very musical, tracks go places.

been listening to this constantly since @mountain_goats linked to it on twitter yesterday. it is lovely!

http://veryfresh.bandcamp.com/album/2011-demos

http://battlecircus.bandcamp.com/
Epic prog rock lock Muse (don't run away)!

http://c-jeff.bandcamp.com/album/preschtale
Chiptune prog metal (?) concept album!

http://cosmonautsday.bandcamp.com/album/paths-of-the-restless
Russian post-space sludge! Maybe.

http://eyemusic.bandcamp.com/album/center-of-the-sun
Heavy space rock from Ohio!

http://sanangelus.bandcamp.com/album/soon-well-all-be-ghosts
Post-hardcore from members of Pelican and These Arms Are Snakes!

http://cosmonautsday.bandcamp.com/album/paths-of-the-restless
Russian post-space sludge! Maybe.

i played tracks from that in outloud a few months ago

This thread is the bizness.

The band just told me they have their page up now. They are something special. My #6 album of 2011!

Ever crave a band that's so downtuned that you can actually track the motion of the strings and feel the vibrations in your internal organs? Chile's At Devil Dirt has a doozy for you. It's hard to believe it's just two guys, as their debut self-titled album has a mammoth sludgy fuzz sound worthy of Electric Wizard, Goatsnake, Kyuss and Floor/Torche, with some pretty inventive psychedelic vocals with harmonies. On "Rocknrolla" they even bring to mind T. Rex!

At Devil Dirt (Corvus Discos)
http://atdevildirt.bandcamp.com/

This band from Argentina (instrumental stoner/psych) is a late discovery:
Poseidótica - Cronicas del Futuro (Aquatalan)
http://poseidotica.bandcamp.com/album/cronicas-del-futuro

http://thetelewire.bandcamp.com/album/the-telewire
Spacegaze!

http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/first-matter
Dronegaze!

http://viaticum.bandcamp.com/
Noisy space rock!

http://compilationforacat.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-for-a-cat

Charity drone/ambient/goth thing! For a cat! (Cool background story, actually -- poor kitty.)

Greg Ginn would approve.

I upload stuff to bandcamp. Older stuff - guitar based sadcore or jangle pop. Newer stuff - more new wave. Most of it is free if you want it.

http://lingereffect.bandcamp.com/

Some great Kraut-ish jams from Indirect:

http://indirect.bandcamp.com/album/2010-direct-from-w-k-a-f-compilation

(They aren't free/name your price so I won't link them, but Fang Wizard has a fun album from TeenBeat available for download on bandcamp, and there are a couple of great post-punk-type singles by Friends for dirt cheap from the Lucky Number label on the site as well.)

http://worstward.bandcamp.com
This being the hub for all things Steven R. Smith (formerly of Mirza, Thuja, Hala Straana and solo artist). His latest OLD SKETE is a must-listen for rustic drone types.

And thanks for the kind words WRT The Rowell Incident upthread. There will probably be some more solo synth/drone stuff going up in the nearish future.

http://tendernessmusic.com/track/sing-in-the-fire
http://tendernessmusic.com/track/we-lay-our-broken-world-in-sorrow-at-your-feet

Solex + liturgical texts (?) it's really good

http://blackaciddevil.bandcamp.com/
Stoner/Sludge Metal, came out December 12.

i contributed a track to this (#8), pretty happy with how it came out:

http://worldaround.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-world-around-vol-2

I'm listening to the Airs record that I linked to up above as "shoegaze with black metal elements." There is no black metal in this that I can ascertain. So if that scared you off, have no fear – this is pretty straight up staring at footwear.

James Murphy's nephew does electro shocka:

http://m-o-o-n.bandcamp.com/

Pretty friggin' good, actually.

http://heavystrife.bandcamp.com/album/synth-tiseur
80s-style Blade Runner synthpop!

http://lecouleurmusic.bandcamp.com/album/origami
French (Canadian) synthpop!

http://giraffage.bandcamp.com/
Chill glitch pop!

Thanks for the Sedan and Witch Mountain shout out, J3ff!

Yeah, that Sedan record you recommended is great, I've been introducing a bunch of people to it.

http://uncertain.bandcamp.com/album/aether-musick-for-moths
Deeply unsettling ambient music for moths! Also in the same series: grief and seahorses.

http://lematos.bandcamp.com/album/coming-soon
80s-style synth dance!

http://donovancoreylyons.bandcamp.com/album/0b11111011011demos
Ambient psych from a member of the metal band Millions!

Those were all good, thanks Jeff!!

http://hesperpayne.bandcamp.com/album/the-strange-tale-of-samuel-gonzalez
Hesper Payne, pretty solid death droom from the north of England.

haha @ "death droom", "death doom" i meant

drooooooooom

I think I need to go record an album so I can make the ultimate droom album that all others will be judged by.

hit those drooms

droom = dream in Dutch, makes total sense to me

I had too much to droom last night

the moth music was hella creepy. scott walker should get with whoever did it.

droom a little droom for me

Yeah, I can't listen to the moth music, freaks me out too much.

the moth music was hella creepy. scott walker should get with whoever did it.

― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), maandag 23 januari 2012 20:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

awesome recommendation tbh, will check it out

currently enjoying moth music
fyi

wait, which one is the moth music?

damn i didnt know le bateau ivre was scott walker

http://bakedgoods.bandcamp.com/

Oh, my ship is coming in, flopson, baby baby

thought my user name gave it away

http://uncertain.bandcamp.com/album/aether-musick-for-moths

Yay! Unleash the smoke machine! ;)

i didn't find the sample song scary at all, but maybe the rest is terrifying. i'll find out soon.

Sounds more like soothing ambient than scary to me. I, being Scott Walker, will not be associated with such half-witted muzak. They could have at least punched some pig meat, you know, to show they mean it.

That kind of overpowering, claustrophobic drone always gets to me for some reason.

Also the little fluttering wings. Do not want.

It seems to lean a lot on effects, like the wind blowing over an icy polar landscape. But I do like it, yes.

Also the little fluttering wings. Do not want.

― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:36 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh no, wrong attitude, want Jeff, want!

Album gets better along the way, but it still sounds fairly sad-ambient-cliché to be honest

I don't know man, are you listening to ambient for innovation and excitement? Because I think you might have the wrong genre for that.

Some folks chaff, some folks wheat... But my music is all free/name-your-price on Bandcamp. If anyone pays anything, it gets donated on.

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/

Farewell compilation from my longtime electronic music label just came out for free/nyp:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/astraltopia

Happy birthday to the Late, Great Montana Elliot of Sharpless. She would have been 31 today. New Sharpless for u:

https://music.sharpless.life/track/people-in-love

georgie gould, aka bulldog eyes, is one of the best songwriters alive.

to tell you the truth, i can't get into her new stuff. it's too impenetrable, both in terms of structure and production. a lot of people seem to like it though.

her old stuff, though - there's almost nothing that isn't gold before late 2016. i've still never heard anything like it. she takes these disparate sounds and textures - jazzy nylon-string, raspy electric guitar, clipped-to-death drum samples, feedback, midi keyboards and soft, buried-in-the-mix vocals - and fashions them into something totally unique, catchy, cohesive and very beautiful.

she's been having financial trouble for a long time, so i'm sure buying her stuff would help her out - everthing's name-your-price.

i'm just gonna post every album i love (apart from the ones she's deleted) here:
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/shame
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-fun
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/landes
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/seeya
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/thanks
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/asleep
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/yukon-bulldog-eyes-split
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/gross
https://bulldogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides

This is pretty great- a gig Ben Goldberg did at The Stone in 2014. I can't improve on his description so here it is:

In February/March 2014 I had a one week residency at The Stone in New York -- 12 sets in 6 days. For the last set of the last night I assembled some of my favorite musicians -- Liberty Ellman, Steve Cardenas, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, and Rob Sudduth -- and we performed one of my favorite songs, "Let's Cool One" by Thelonious Monk. Fatigue had set in but the mind was open, and we played at the slowest tempo I could imagine, right around quarter note = 13 seconds. I had a feeling that something would take over sooner or later, and I think I was right. The song lasted 44 minutes. Luckily it was recorded. Now I give it to you and hope you get something from it. Love to all.

https://ben-goldberg--bag-production-records.bandcamp.com/album/ben-goldberg-at-the-stone-february-march-2014-lets-cool-one