September's Bandcamp Friday

Bandcamp Friday was September sixth. I like to save music to my Bandcamp wishlist and then make a big selection for purchase every Bandcamp Friday. Here’s what I bought this time.

More than a handful of classic post-rock albums and their contemporary incarnation, it seems. He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… was actually the first A Silver Mt. Zion album I experienced, back in the era of the compact disc, after a friend burnt me a copy of a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album and I immediately decided I needed to seek out everything I could.

Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything is their latest. For me, their jangly chamber-punk garage metal is a natural evolution from the classic post-rock moniker placed on them.

Similarly F# A# Infinity was my first GY!BE album and I had just never added it to my Bandcamp library.

Luciferian Towers is their latest.

Ana Never’s self-titled is another post-rock album I loved years ago but never bought on Bandcamp.

I do not remember where I first heard Golden Fable’s The Crossing, but I had left it’s lilting vocals and delicious guitar riffs in my wishlist for far too long.

I will admit to having a notable weakness for ladies that can wail. Unleash the Archers’ Brittney Slayes can absolutely wail, and the fact there’s a power metal band around her while she does it is sublime.

Les Chants de l’Aurore is the latest from French post-metal shoegaze band Alcest. Some great driving guitars and melancholy vocals here. A good end of summer album.

Deep Fried Grandeur feels like if the Grateful Dead were a Japanese acid band.

Rapping skillfully over the top of distorted Nirvana songs is an utterly genius hook. Very reminiscent of DJ Shadow to me.

Swaken is the latest from French-Moroccan Bab L’ Bluz and features a joyful electro trance-funk that is mouth-wateringly energetic.

Bam Bam is the first grunge band fronted by a black woman. I’m not entirely sure who was keeping track but still I regret not listening to them in their era.

Flaming Telepaths is a great cover, but I had to embed Godzilla.

Poobah’s classic proto-metal is achingly heroic. I utterly regret only discovering the now.

An indisputable part of a certain era of childhood. Does your dog bite? Hey Sandy!

Again, a lady who can wail. Valerie June’s particular flavor of Americana soul is wry and juicy while effortlessly moving between an electric funk and a gentle blues.

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