Welcome to a new feature we’re calling “I Found it on Bandcamp Friday.” The concept is simple: We want to hear about your Bandcamp discoveries. So after every Bandcamp Friday, we’re going to ask for your picks via Twitter—we’ll also be asking our writers, editorial staff, and artists & labels team—so we can present ’em in a single list for you to check out.
To kick it off, we’ve asked our writers and Bandcamp staffers to share their discoveries.
Andrew Jervis, Director of Artists & Labels; Bandcamp Weekly Host
Joy Guidry, AMEN
Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
One serene bassoon jam and one freakin’ fierce nod to Max Roach was all I needed to press the pre-order button.
Ted Davis, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Gbar, Little Dance
Gbar’s EP for rising New York City underground institution Earth Dog Records captures the prog house revival at its moodiest.
Mariana Timony, Bandcamp Senior Editor
Becky & The Politicians, ...Play the Early Hits of Cub
Cassette
Portland DIY one-person act (don’t mind the band name) Becky & the Politicians’s glue-stick-and-glitter valentine to the pop genius of Cub brims with loving devotion to both the Canadian cuddlecore band and their tenderhearted approach to punk. And if you’re inspired to revisit the original artifacts, good news, those are on Bandcamp, too.
Joe Muggs, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Held By Trees, Solace
Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
Overtly inspired by the music of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk, but way more than just a tribute, Solace‘s bittersweet ambient dream-rock instrumentals genuinely live up to the album’s title.
Max Gibson, Artist Education Manager
Mahawam, Hot Pressed
Oakland-based singer-songwriter Mahawam’s latest project, Hot Pressed, provides an honest, unflinching and introspective take on love, life, queerness and much more.
Josie Keefe, Bandcamp Senior Designer
Hermanos Gutiérrez, Sonido Cósmico
Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP
Easy Eye Sound brings us their latest missive—a love letter in a bottle—from Western Cosmic troubadours Hermanos Gutiérrez. With Sonido Cósmico, the brothers bring their guitars to Latin America in the 1950’s, taking the listener along on their roadtrip through time.
Brad Sanders, Bandcamp Daily Writer & Metal Radio Show Host
Acero Letal, Legiones
Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP
On the cusp of their first-ever U.S. tour, the Chilean speed metal merchants deliver eight new cuts of frantic, melodic, Spanish-language steel.
Will Evans, Australia Artist & Label Ambassador
Yrinda, Yrinda
Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
Otherworldly contemporary Australian music. Propels the stories of the world’s oldest living culture through the present and into the future.
Elle Carroll, Bandcamp Daily Writer
UNS, ALLES WAS WIR MACHEN IST KUNST
Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
In a classic display of German subtlety, Berlin’s most delightfully obnoxious art rock trio yelp their way through 10 tracks of full-throttle synth punk and then call it—caps lock on—”EVERYTHING WE MAKE IS ART.” Das stimmt.
Jennifer Kelly, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Daona, Live Machines
Vinyl LP
Wild squalls of electronic sound, inscrutable chants, and manic breakbeats flare and recede in the mind-melting first track here, which resists categorization but invites discovery.
Phillip Mlynar, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Slagr, Linde
Compact Disc (CD)
The modern Oslo trio’s folk-leaning compositions employ cello, fiddle, and vibraphone to conjure a frosty spirit-lifting experience.
Jim Allen, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Mighty Truth, Mighty Truth
This British duo dropped one lost acid-jazz nugget in ’95, but now they’re back, in a warmly organic electro-acoustic dream state overflowing with gentle beauty and subtle sensuality.
Aly Gillani, UK Artist & Label Ambassador; Bandcamp Weekly Host
Laura J. Martin, Prepared
Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
Liverpudlian singer and multi-instrumentalist Laura J Martin returns with her most expansive work to date. Blending off-beat pop, dubbed-out electronica, and new-age experimentalism, Prepared is one of the most unexpected records I’ve heard this year.
John Morrison, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Small Professor, I Had to Be a Pharoahe in the Past
Thirteen masterful beats inspired by magic of Organized Konfusion’s “Thirteen.”
Christina Hazboun, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Shabjeed & Al Nather – شب جديد والناظر, SULTAN – سلطان
Vinyl LP
The Palestinian duo Shabjdeed and Al Nather finally dropped their much-anticipated second album Sultan, mixing a wide-and-wild array of sounds from pop to Russian post-punk, collaged soundscapes to intricate electronics—all topped up with broken beats
Amit Nerukar, Hip-Hop Artist & Label Ambassador.
Younger Brother, A Flock of Beeps
2 x Vinyl LP
Foundational debut album from the lords of psy Simon Posford (Shpongle & Hallucinogen) and Benji Vaughn (Prometheus), now remastered and ready to twist your minds again.
Blake Gillespie, Bandcamp Daily Writer
groundsound, Working Progress
Poetic, immersive, and informative Afrofuturist dub and broken beat by producer Gavsborg and scholar Riddim Writer that proves Jamaica is still the nerve center of revolutionary music.
George Grella, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesdays, February 9, 1980
An archival, never-before-heard release of the monumental free jazz pianist and one of his great ensembles, from the vaults of the important label Hat Hut.
Dave Sumner, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Less Bells, The Drowned Crowd
Vinyl LP
The latest from Julie Carpenter’s ambient-orchestral Less Bells project is rich with grandeur and warmth, a superb counterpart to daybreak. Sunsets, too.
Richard Villegas, Bandcamp Daily Writer
Aleroj x Crrdr, Godfathers of Uwuaracha
The pummeling throb of Latin core has swept through global nightclubs, and Colombian producers Aleroj and Crrdr delivered one of its defining manifestos in Godfathers of Uwuaracha, which sounds like a circuit party held at an anime convention.
Zoe Camp, Bandcamp Daily Editor
Various Artists, Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94
2 x Vinyl LP
London-based label Blank Mind celebrates the “blissed-out” corners of ’90s breakbeat hardcore—think new age influences and downtempo grooves rather than uncompromising rave—on this radiant compilation of deep cuts.
J. Edward Keyes, Bandcamp Daily Editorial Director
HIM LO presents 67th Infantry ft. Clever 1 & Grand Scheme, Stampede of Equestrianz
Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
I buy everything the Grilchy Party label drops without thinking twice—that’s how high the standard of quality is. They announced the latest from HIM-Lo & Co. this past Bandcamp Friday, and that was an insta-buy for me.
