There is a ton of great music out on Bandcamp but a lot of it goes unseen. I often find a lot of great stuff on there but it wasn't easy to share it with a lot of people. I made this thread in hopes that it will help other people find something new and exciting by giving people a place to post their favorite Bandcamp albums and artists.
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[url=http://comacinema.bandcamp.com/][img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/17/07/1707263894-1.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide[/b] [PWYW]
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Depressed music (not depressing), short and very catchy songs.
Sample: [url]http://comacinema.bandcamp.com/track/wrecked[/url]
I fell in love with Coma Cinema through this album last year.
His music is very cynical and depressed but incredibly catchy
and poppy. He really stands out in a sea of generic singer
song-writer bullshit. He's my little Indie Darling :3 Also Coma Cinema's
other album, [url=http://comacinema.bandcamp.com/album/stoned-alone]Stoned Alone[/url] is just as good as this one. [/release]
[url=http://coryjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/the-legend-of-zelda][img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/52/89/528997327-1.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Cory Johnson - The Legend of Zelda[/b] [PWYW]
Genre: Zelda Post-Rock
Sample: [url]http://coryjohnson.bandcamp.com/track/skyward-sword-2[/url]
This is an awesome project that takes classic and new
Legend of Zelda songs and composes them into Post-Rock
epics. Cory Johnson put out a demo of this last year which
I posted in one of these threads somewhere and it was well
received. This is the final complete and mastered versions plus more.
Check this out, it's fantastic.
Love the idea of this thread, I have a ton of Bandcamp pages bookmarked so I can contribute quite a bit.
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[B]The Speed of Sound in Seawater - Red Version[/B] [PWYW]
[url]http://thespeedofsoundinseawater.bandcamp.com/[/url] Woops forgot the link.
Genre: Math-rock, indie, emo
Sample: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848ELdnp1-k[/url]
Really good mathy indie-pop with some 90s emo tendencies. Instrumentally and musically immensely talented and lyrically very unique. Telling wild but enthralling stories seems to be the way Damien Verrett gets his thoughts into the music. Overall just a lot of fun. Check out their other albums too, they're mostly similar to this one (except maybe Blue Version, which is a little bit more rooted in screamo).
[img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/80/3180295108-1.jpg[/img]
Bread Club - Bread Club
[url]http://breadclub.bandcamp.com/[/url]
Pretty neat indie emo stuff. Basically I get a lot of the emo I listen to from bandcamp.
[IMG]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/15/99/1599963690-1.jpg[/IMG]
[B]XXYYXX - XXYYXX
[/B]([URL]http://xxyyxx.bandcamp.com/album/xxyyxx[/URL])
Genre: Fro-Fi, Chillwave, Experimental
Sample:[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agBfUvCfFpE[/URL]
Just found out about this guy a couple of weeks back and I love everything he's done. Hip hop and R&B vibes are everywhere in his 808, timestretched tunes
[url=http://thehorsemuseum.bandcamp.com/][img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/21/96/2196104685-1.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Jordaan Mason and the Horse Museum - Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head[/b] [PWYW]
Genre: Low-fi, so much like ITAOTS
Sample: [url]http://thehorsemuseum.bandcamp.com/track/birds-nest[/url]
A pretty amazing album with a really strange subject matter.
A concept album about a broken marriage between a sexually
confused man and woman and horses and semen and sex. It's
lyrics are really interesting and can be a little gross at times.
Jordaan Mason has such an interesting voice, very very similar
to Jeff Mangum. This is something you should definitely check
out if you liked In The Aeroplane Over the Sea.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;36979257][url=http://coryjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/the-legend-of-zelda][img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/52/89/528997327-1.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Cory Johnson - The Legend of Zelda[/b] [PWYW]
Genre: Zelda Post-Rock
Sample: [url]http://coryjohnson.bandcamp.com/track/skyward-sword-2[/url]
This is an awesome project that takes classic and new
Legend of Zelda songs and composes them into Post-Rock
epics. Cory Johnson put out a demo of this last year which
I posted in one of these threads somewhere and it was well
received. This is the final complete and mastered versions plus more.
Check this out, it's fantastic.[/QUOTE]
YES. This stuff is awesome.
[IMG]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/14/73/1473609805-1.jpg[/IMG]
[B]Fungal Abyass[/B] - [b]Bardo Abgrund Temple[/b]
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Drone
[URL]http://fungalabyss.bandcamp.com/[/URL]
Some really great droning Psychedelic Rock. To me it kinda has a Post-Rock vibe to it.
Fungal Abyss is pretty cool so far. Reminds me of another Psych-Rock band I found on bandcamp.
[url=http://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/psychonaut][img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/38/05/3805375274-1.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]The Cosmic Dead - Psychonaut[/b] [Was Free, now ₤2/$3]
Genre: Psych-Rock, Heavy Grooves, awesome fast driving music
Sample: [url]http://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/track/lavinia-mother-ov-mystery[/url]
Great spacey psych-rock. Totally a throwback to decades
old psychedelia. It sounds like it was recorded live, which I
think is pretty cool. It used to be free, I don't know why it
isn't any longer. I'd recommend checking it out.
You only get a limited amount of free Bandcamp downloads, unless you pay.
[editline]28th July 2012[/editline]
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[B]Remotley[/B]
Genre: Drone Doom, Dark Ambient
Sample: [url]http://remotely.bandcamp.com/track/white-knight[/url]
I don't remember how I found this page and
I don't know who these guys are but this is some of
the darkest, most oppressive, medieval sounding music
I've ever heard. Moth is the easiest album to listen to
and it sounds like something right out of Demon's/Dark Souls.
The other two albums are far more drone doom based but still
dark as hell. I actually sleep to this stuff. :v:
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/28/59/2859041631-1.jpg[/t]
[B]*shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo[/B]
Genre: Progressive Rock
Sample: [url]http://shelsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/crown-of-eagle-feathers[/url]
I've been listening to this album and Sea of a Dying Dhow religiously.
It's so good. I didn't think you could use a trumpet in a band like this
but they did and it fits so well. Anything by *shels is pretty awesome
and there are a lot of other good bands on that Bandcamp page.
Ah. That makes sense. I know Cults had that issue last year when they got popular with some songs.
[editline]28th July 2012[/editline]
I've got Plains of the Purple Buffalo on vinyl. It's such a good album and the record is so pretty.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;36982963]I've got Plains of the Purple Buffalo on vinyl. It's such a good album and the record is so pretty.[/QUOTE]
Slap some peanut butter on me because I am jelly.
Shit was so expensive. I live outside of Europe and the shipping was more than the actual record itself.
I'm loving The Cosmic Dead and Remotely so far.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;36982963]I've got Plains of the Purple Buffalo on vinyl. It's such a good album and the record is so pretty.[/QUOTE]
I'm not a vinyl guy but I'm seriously considering getting the artwork/poster for Plains. So damn pretty.
[url=http://gilescorey.bandcamp.com/][img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/35/42/3542405510-1.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Giles Corey - Giles Corey[/b] [$5]
Genre: Singer Song-writer, Suicidal music, thoughts about afterlife and ghosts, EVP, AOTY 2011
Sample: [url]http://gilescorey.bandcamp.com/track/blackest-bile[/url]
Dan Barrett from Have A Nice Life produces some of the
saddest and truly depressing songs I have ever heard.
My favorite album last year and still one of my all time
favorites. The best haunted musical suicide letter to ever
be released. Heart breaking and beautiful, you really should
listen to this.
[img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/21/35/2135732231-1.jpg[/img]
[b]Semilanceata - En wallmoburen myhr, där döön grödha mellom bitter root ok frucht[/b] [$3]
Genre: Folk/Dark Ambient
Sample: [url]http://aurisapothecary.bandcamp.com/track/drauzma-gestalt-domnar[/url]
Bizarre repetitive Folk/Dark Ambient.
time for self promotion
[img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/49/36/49363630-1.jpg[/img]
[B]Ernia - Grind Opus[/B] [no charge]
Genre: Deathgrind
Get the whole damn thing: [url]http://erniatheband.bandcamp.com/album/grind-opus[/url]
It's our best stuff to date, recorded in a real studio. We have other free stuff in our bandcamp, but the sound quality is pretty crap.
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/33/48/3348126491-1.jpg[/t]
[B]Adrian Baker/Broken Spine Productions/Nadja[/B]
Genre: Drone Doom, Shoegaze, Ambient, Experimental
Sample: [url]http://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/[/url] - [url]http://brokenspineprods.bandcamp.com/[/url] - [url]http://nadja.bandcamp.com/[/url]
The three Bandcamp's Adrian Baker and Leah Buckareff
release all their stuff on. Nadja is awesome and Adrian's
solo stuff is equally as interesting. I personally recommend
[I]Skin Turns To Glass[/I] as a place to start with Nadja.
Everything else I kinda sift through randomly.
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[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/28/59/2859041631-1.jpg[/t]
[B]*shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo[/B]
Genre: Progressive Rock
Sample: [url]http://shelsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/crown-of-eagle-feathers[/url]
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This is brilliant.
Here is what I found few years ago:
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/32/43/3243905517-1.jpg[/t]
Extradimensional Ethnography by [B]Akara[/B]
Genre: Fusion of genres (classical, electronica etc)
Sample: [url]http://akaraproject.com/track/the-far-shore[/url]
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/10/43/1043872727-1.jpg[/t]
One Step More And You Die by [B]MONO[/B]
It's one of their lighter stuff.
Genre: Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Ambient Rock
Sample: [url]http://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/track/com[/url]
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/20/77/2077123024-1.jpg[/t]
[B]Kasper Rosa[/B]
Genre: Post-Rock
Sample: [url]http://kasperrosa.bandcamp.com/track/team-building-exercise[/url]
I cannot get enough of these guys. Kasper Rosa
is one of the bands that is my definition of what
post-rock should be like. They're immensely enjoyable
and have a bit of flair I wish more post-rock bands
would have. Their album art is awesome and they pay
attention to the love people throw them on tumblr,
which is cool. The sample song, [I]Team Building Exercise[/I],
could probably being me to tears under the right
circumstances.
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/15/52/1552687048-1.jpg[/t]
[B]If These Trees Could Talk[/B]
Genre: Post-Rock
Sample: [url]http://ifthesetreescouldtalk.bandcamp.com/track/left-to-rust-and-rot[/url]
Another one of my definitions of what post-rock
should be like and one of my top three favorite bands
of all time, I cannot sing enough praise for ITTCT. Their
latest album is truly something and as someone who lives
in Colorado, the music is practically created with an
environment like this in mind. I wish I could have the
chance to see these guys live, and after they did an AMA
on Reddit's r/postrock, they said they would hook me up
if they ever came through. Amazing band, awesome bunch
of people in it.
[img]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/17/10/1710063827-1.jpg[/img]
[B]Libertine[/B]
Genre: Electro, Ambient
Sample: [url]http://mirrormachine.bandcamp.com/track/blackbone[/url]
This guy's a facepuncher. I've been following him since his debut album "Clutch". He makes a mix of electro and ambient. I'd check all 3 of his albums out.
[IMG]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/25/05/2505432355-1.jpg[/IMG]
[B]Caspian[/B]
Genre: Post-Rock, Post-Metal, Experimental
Sample: [url]http://caspiantheband.bandcamp.com/album/tertia[/url]
Easily one of the best artist I have ever listened to. You got to listen to the whole album because everything is connected seamlessly.
[QUOTE=Banned?;37028000]
[B]If These Trees Could Talk[/B]
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Somehow they sound too generic to me. I listened to them a long time ago, Malabar Front.
[QUOTE=fritzel;37049838]Somehow they sound too generic to me. I listened to them a long time ago, Malabar Front.[/QUOTE]
Well your mother's a whore.
[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]I kid.[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]
That's how I first heard them too, from the inFamous trailer. That song is the reason I listen to post-rock. When I downloaded music by the bucket I had a lot of the post-rock essentials like Explosions In The Sky and God Is An Astronaut, Sigur Rós and that kind of airy, almost minimal build up kind of post-rock didn't stick with me. ITTCT sounds far more like the rock in post-rock which is why they've stuck with me for years.
[QUOTE=Banned?;37051208]
That's how I first heard them too, from the inFamous trailer. That song is the reason I listen to post-rock. When I downloaded music by the bucket I had a lot of the post-rock essentials like Explosions In The Sky and God Is An Astronaut, Sigur Rós and that kind of airy, almost minimal build up kind of post-rock didn't stick with me. ITTCT sounds far more like the rock in post-rock which is why they've stuck with me for years.[/QUOTE]
I first listened to EITS song in some flash website while using stumbleupon. There it started. When I think of post-rock, I think of more novel presentation there. *shels got me dig their stuff more. God Is An Astronaut is pretty generic too, likeable at first listen but doesn't hold for long to me. GY!BE, on that other hand, is something that amazes me always Though, initially it didn't appeal much. I agree that you might be craving for a different taste in post-rock. It's pretty much open to one's definition as to how one likes to define it and wish to see it.
This is another band, quite refreshing to listen to:
[IMG]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/15/91/1591786380-1.jpg[/IMG]
[B]The Evpatoria Report[/B]
Genre: Post-Rock
Sample: [url]http://the-evpatoria-report.bandcamp.com/track/taijin-kyofusho[/url]
I think MONO and EITS are the worst Post-Rock bands ever.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;37052923]I think MONO and EITS are the worst Post-Rock bands ever.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, good for you.
Rude
[QUOTE=fritzel;37052644]I first listened to EITS song in some flash website while using stumbleupon. There it started. When I think of post-rock, I think of more novel presentation there. *shels got me dig their stuff more. God Is An Astronaut is pretty generic too, likeable at first listen but doesn't hold for long to me. GY!BE, on that other hand, is something that amazes me always Though, initially it didn't appeal much. I agree that you might be craving for a different taste in post-rock. It's pretty much open to one's definition as to how one likes to define it and wish to see it.[/QUOTE]
*shels isn't post-rock. GSY!BE are fucking epic. Artys fartsy as fuck but amazing.
[editline]2nd August 2012[/editline]
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[B]Zechs Marquise[/B]
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Sample: [url]http://zechsmarquise.bandcamp.com/track/getting-paid[/url]
Awesome band from three of the brothers of Omar Rodríguez-López,
the lead of The Mars Volta. Really cool stuff on their latest album, really
dark stuff on their first album. I blame this band for introducing me to
Bandcamp too. And yes, the name is from Gundam Wing.
[QUOTE=Banned?;37057033]*shels isn't post-rock.
[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I intended to say about the unique presentation of theirs in the context.
Listening to post-rock is certainly an altogether different experience when one uses best analytical audio gear in reach.
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/12/82/1282672233-1.jpg[/t]
[B]The Pirate Ship Quintet[/B]
Genre: Post-Rock, Classical, Alternative
Sample: [url]http://thepirateshipquintet.bandcamp.com/track/pirate-ship[/url]
[t]http://f0.bcbits.com/z/96/70/967015817-1.jpg[/t]
[B]I Hear Sirens[/B]
Genre: Post-Rock, Rock
Sample: [url]http://ihearsirens.bandcamp.com/track/ashes-fall-like-snowflakes-burying-the-sea[/url]
I like the crispy sound here.
In celebration of his new album release...
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[B]Cloudkicker[/B]
Genre: Progressive Rock
Sample: [url]http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/track/oh-god[/url]
Ben Sharp, aka Cloudkicker, is pretty much awesome. He
puts out all his music for free, doesn't even ask for people
to give him money for his music, and he gets a massive
amount of love anyway. I've bought every single one of
his LP's so far and I plan to buy [I]Fade[/I] when it comes out.
His first four releases are fairly same-y (not any less enjoyably),
but [I]Beacons[/I] is really an awesome album and
[I]Let Yourself Be Huge[/I] is a really chill followup.
Also [url=https://twitter.com/dvntownsend/status/17423023971762176]Devin Townsend approved![/url]
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