Bandcamp Friday was December fifth. 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.
I first heard Champion's No Heaven after beating the original Borderlands. For me it perfectly encapsulates my memories of the off-beat coolness of the series in it's early years.
The early years of Spotify were a gift in discoverability and Catholic Boy by The Jim Carroll Band was an album I tripped over by luck and then listened to on loop for months.
I'll admit there are a lot of nostalgia picks in this month's Bandcamp Friday.
Goblin is not a nostalgia pick in my case. The satanic panic loomed large in my Mom's imagination and even a wiff of anything that seemed like it could possibly be interpreted as somehow demonic was forbidden.
Les Amazones d'Afrique's African-flavored electronic pop, and any sufficiently groovey west-African pop sound, is compelling to me in a way that I struggle to express.
Italian stoner power metal is always an engaging time.
Castle Rat's second album continues their head-first dungeon-core doom metal.
Epically crunchy heavy metal.
German speed metal at it's most raw.
Speedclaw is a contemporary speed metal band expertly reaching the moon with a vintage-inspired sound.
While I am thrilled at Supergiant's success with the Hades series I've always been bummed Transistor wasn't the genre-defining success that the first Hades game was. Regardless the Transistor soundtrack is excellent.
Mid-80s throaty anthemic punk immediately has my attention. I was tragically unaware Squirrel Bait existed.
Shout it loud.
Wet Leg is a kind of deliciously racous and unashamedly fierce alt-pop force that cannot be denied.
SUBSTANCE810 and Observe Since 98's The Lion's Share series is electric, compelling, and worthy of anyone's attention.
