Bandcamp Friday was a watershed, a deluge, and we stood under it, arms (and ears) open. There, I've drawn you a half-decent word picture, we can all pack up and go home. But, seriously, we're better prepared for a weekend of sonic excellence than usual thanks to the wheelbarrowful of quality new sounds released just today. First, we catch up with the recent quality output from Bleach Lab (pictured above). […]
There are anomalies, there are outliers, and there's Älägator. A Finn-inspired quintet that was born in Edinburgh, U.K. (currently residing in NYC), specializing in a sort of slowcore dream pop that takes you to the outer reaches of imagination. While the instrumentation is tightly and deftly controlled, it belies a certain fragility, in that it feels like it can fall apart at any moment. If you're looking for comparisons, keep […]
You think you have the weekend well in hand, and then realize you have triple the number of new tracks to program than you had the prior weekend. Such is life on the cutting edge of shoegaze and dream pop. This weekend, our headliners include Dottie (pictured above), Foxes in Fiction, draag, Blushing, Helens, Uztar, Flamingo, Animal Ghosts, Her Skin, älägator, Malchicks, Animal Ghosts, Beatastic, Flamingo, Become The Sky, GR^VE, […]
