Thread for awesome stuff on Bandcamp that costs money but is still awesome

Christ. 's albums are available on bandcamp for dirt cheap. The guy that's associated w/boards of canada. some good tracks in there

Link for the previous post: http://christmusic.bandcamp.com/

Mogwai-esque post-rock from Vietnam: http://timekeeper.bandcamp.com

LOVE this band. Live they're more violent than on the album, which I think is the way I like things, in general

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/album/as-if-to-say-i-hate-daylight

also every once in a while he puts up stuff to DL for $ because he is in college and poor.

http://humankindnessoverflowing.bandcamp.com/album/eskimeaux

Good friends wrapping up their first tour in DC as we speak;

A portion of proceeds go to charity...

"For the $5 dollars you will spend on this album $2.50 will provide 5 meals for those in need through Philabundance. $1.50 will go directly to the artist and the other $1.50 will go to future funding of charitable projects with HKO. Additional payment is sincerely appreciated and is distributed in the same ratio."

Talking last weekend to someone about DROKK, and on a similar Carpenter/etc tip he recommended Matthew Akers' The Elders Of New Detroit:

http://matthewakers.bandcamp.com/album/the-elders-of-new-detroit

that sounds cool. Thanks!

http://randomchild.bandcamp.com/album/trials

M0AR BRO-HYPE. Random Child's 3rd album. Metal ahead. 5 buxx0r

Because Shooting Guns' "Down and Out in Detroit" 7" has sold out they've made the track available as a name-your-price:

http://shootingguns.bandcamp.com/album/shooting-guns-cult-of-dom-keller-split-7

friends of mine + i helped out a little with the recording of this one. modest mouse/mountain goats influenced fun indy pop stuff. i really really love this record:

http://megagemdenver.bandcamp.com/album/colors-of-the-west

is anyone else doing the social media thing they have going?

sort of

passively, then?

or thereabouts

http://bandcamp.com/electricsound

Multi-split single-ish EP thing from Small Wonder, Bellows n Eskimeaux

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/album/walk-away-from-me

i don't think i've mentioned saadi. saadi.

http://saadinyc.bandcamp.com/

(dodecahedron from clotheslines was the first track that really grabbed me, if you want a place to start)

Hawkeyes! Canadian psychedelic doom that just pile riff upon riff upon riff until you get crushed.

http://hawkeyes.bandcamp.com/

Anyone else suddenly getting loads of emails from Bandcamp along the lines of "New album from Arovane"? Started getting them this week with no recollection of ever having signed up to or bought anything from the site.

Not that I can see; just the 2-3 new releases a week from R. Stevie Moore (SLOW DOWN DUDE JESUS)

My buddy Sam made this analog synth record that I think is lovely

http://vaald.bandcamp.com/album/terminals

Collaborative album btw Small Wonder and Sharpless:

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/album/second-place

Sharpless: http://music.sharplessmusic.com
Small Wonder: http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com

http://sunstonerevolvers.bandcamp.com/

was going to post this on the psych/drone thread but suspected it would be ripped apart for it being too close to brmc, warlocks, dead meadows etc, albeit in a more ramshackle, self produced, jam band kinda groove.
but given this thread has been revived ..
i have listened to this album more this week than anything else, and enjoy it more with each spin.

oh, and i seriously love the artwork as well.

I'm into Night Burger right now

http://nightburger.bandcamp.com/album/burnin-fast

http://canary-records.bandcamp.com

smooth age, from that night burger comp, is very cool. i like the faraway tribal drums and overall menacing vibe. good recommendation.

this is a REALLY good ambient/noise album:
http://droneclone.bandcamp.com/album/droneclone

an old pal's album from a few years back is up on bandcamp now
winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/blue-coaching
he's great

http://winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/blue-coaching

okay, this is awesome and hilarious. childbirth's it's a girl.

this song from the childbirth album -- how do girls do it? -- has been on a continuous loop all day. this is a great little album.

http://bonzoterks.bandcamp.com/album/quartet

excellent jazz quartet whose debut album I've been loving for over a year now. A second album coming out soon, and I'm looking forward to it.

http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-2

http://angelsdiehard.bandcamp.com/

sterling beat me to it:

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3556908290_10.jpg

http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-2

http://hammersofmisfortune.bandcamp.com/

I hope this doesn't get dismissed as stupid without investigating: the soundtrack to Minecraft is actually one of the better ambient records I've heard recently, and has some flat-out stunning moments.

http://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha

ha, dlp, I've never played Minecraft, but I'm gonna check that out for sure.

genius minimal synth candy with a made up backstory that detracts not at all from the ace tunes

https://karennovotnyx.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-here-now-but-these-recordings-78-79

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2238347451_10.jpg

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/album/blue-breath

New Bellows album. Bedroom buzz-pop. Propulsive & person.

Batsignal to s.clover for cosign

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2026903251_10.jpg

http://music.sharplessmusic.com/album/the-one-i-wanted-to-be

Difficult second album from Sharpless. Major Batsignal to s.clover and M4ur4 on this one for writing them up in the Voice like 3 years ago

this album so good

wau, the bridge on gemini!

Dilly Dally. From Toronto, have two songs up on Bandcamp, and that's all I know about them. The earlier track is kinda meh, but I've had "Next Gold" on repeat periodically throughout the afternoon:

http://dillydally.bandcamp.com/track/next-gold

well, there's this:

http://howtoswim.bandcamp.com/album/niagarama

Rhyton - The Emerald Tablet

http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/the-emerald-tablet

Powder Blue - Dream In Black

http://powderbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dream-in-black

Two songs into this four-song EP by Philadelphia band Beach Slang, and I'm kinda digging it.

https://beachslang.bandcamp.com

The best Bandcamp releases of 2014: http://www.factmag.com/2014/12/01/and-this-one-timethe-best-bandcamp-releases-of-2014/

TESD Christmas 2014.

discovered these guys due to one of their tracks being used on a recent episode of "high maintenance" - http://phantasmosis.bandcamp.com/

my brother turned me on to this band, theyre like a more scuzzy punkified thin lizzy - http://sheermag.bandcamp.com/

sheer mag is really awesome wow

This tariff bullshit makes it so frustrating. Woke up to two emails about new pre-orders I'd really like to get, so I hop over to Bandcamp to pick them up. The first is from a label that will no longer ship to the US at all (says the same on their label website), the second would cost $32 to ship a $16 CD to the U.S.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's just one more example of how everything is just shittier right now.

yep, I've had the same frustration. Most recently, wanted to get the Piotr Kurek LP after reading Phil Sherburne's great review, only to find that it isn't shipping to the US. Ugh

I also have yet to receive my Real Lies LP I ordered from the band, though I'm not entirely convinced those have actually shipped

this piotr kurek album is lovely

yes it is

cost $32 to ship a $16 CD

I'd like to point people to my friends' band from the late 90's, the Sunshine Club, who finally got their 2 albums (plus an album of unreleased stuff) up on bandcamp 25 years later. RIYL Red House Painters, Spinanes, American Music Club, other 90's slowcore things. These records are amazing, band never got their due.

https://thesunshineclub.bandcamp.com/

Noted - thanks!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bandcamp-announces-ban-on-ai-music/ar-AA1UhF5K?ocid=BingNewsSerp

nice to see it

I think it's purely symbolic, because I don't think there's a lot of slop on Bandcamp (?) and people who actually go to the trouble of buying music to support artists are probably not going to be inspired to do so by AI slop. And of course a lot of legit artists are going to be using AI as part of their music in ways that are not detectable (sampling from AI split or generated stems, writing tools, voice changing like on that last Caribou album - this might be the most controversial, wonder if they would ban it?). But I do appreciate the sentiment, since the whole point is to support human musicians (and to set themselves apart from Spotify etc).

I don’t think it’s purely symbolic but it’s not idealistic/altruistic either. It’s “we are intentionally going to banhammer all you lo-fi chillout clowns building your endless loops with slop prompts” because otherwise the platform would be overwhelmed with trash and people would be unable to find anything good in amongst all the wrong kind kind of noise

yeah i've already noticed an uptick in bots following me that just have, like, a couple obv slop albums in their collection

hopefully merzbow gets the memo and chills on the genAI artwork

https://slowdown-merzbow.bandcamp.com/music

god those are terrible

Lol, I did say last night that if they were banning anything with AI art, I wouldn't want to know what percentage of albums would be vaporized.

I was wondering if slop albums had infiltrated BC, I guess it was inevitable that people would try, but I basically only see pages that I already follow or go to specifically.

I don't think there's a lot of slop on Bandcamp (?)

There's a ton. Every time I do a search for new jazz releases, 2/3 of the feed is obvious slop.

Damn that sucks :(

Don’t know where else to post this but holy shit, on first listen it’s an early contender for album of the year

https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/the-perilous-fight-vol-2-we-the-people

same with this, genre is unclear, suggestions welcome

https://passepartoutduo.bandcamp.com/album/pieces-from-places

^^ I keep listening to this!

Sometimes you’re just fucking around on your phone trying to wake up and stumble upon a Gerard Cosley solo album

https://gerardcosloy.bandcamp.com/album/vfw

I have a new 10 track album out today called "BUILD". Maybe some ILXoRs will find this awesome? I'm pretty happy with it !
https://templo.bandcamp.com/album/build

Whoah, how is it that I did NOT know that Rudy from A.R. Kane and Alison Shaw from Cranes made an EP in the early 90's?

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/rise?fbclid=IwY2xjawRYQIhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEevwiLwPBKNMDOuwL__SNacLjyVSRrCb4pFkIagVGH0II0JDgX6h_rORjiG08_aem_WAT09kiZy4qBPBs66oLS6Q

Thankfully the project was not called A.R. Cranes

i have the rough trade singles club 7" where that originally surfaced. the others are similarly unmemorable. ( https://www.discogs.com/label/349860-Rough-Trade-Singles-Club )

(oh, starpower was another, a name i recognise from their only other single, the place i first heard Some Velvet Morning

https://www.discogs.com/master/1564575-Starpower-Drifter

turns out they were the primitives, which i didn't know)

Thankfully Disappointingly the project was not called A.R. Cranes
― henry s, Friday, 24 April 2026 13:29 (one hour ago)

Fixed that for you.

i have the rough trade singles club 7" where that originally surfaced. the others are similarly unmemorable. ( https://www.discogs.com/label/349860-Rough-Trade-Singles-Club )

― koogs, Friday, April 24, 2026 8:40 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hey now, it's not bad! and there's some other good ones in there

anyway I'll take it off your hands ;)

I concur, I dig that Starpower single as it has Paul Court from the Primitives.

I concur, I dig that Starpower single as it has Paul Court from the Primitives.

My Bandcamp Friday purchases were all titles from the Criss Cross Jazz label:

Don Braden - The Time Is Now, Wish List, & After Dark
Billy Drummond - Native Colours & Dubai
Chris Potter - Presenting Chris Potter & Sundiata