https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-trip-live-at-the-jean-cocteau-cinema-supporting-shane-mauss Genre: Folk Rating: Recommended released March 31, 2023 Full disclosure: I like Garfield as a person not just an artist. I’m not fortunate enough to be an actual friend but he has responded to a few direct messages online. I only mention that because I typically review the music of complete strangers. From timeContinue reading “A Better Trip: Live at The Jean Cocteau Cinema Supporting Shane Mauss by Michael Garfield”
Category Archives: freak folk
Corpses As Bedmates – Babaa & Scheibel = 69
https://youtu.be/Ed-vurfExxo Genre: Freak Folk Rating: ☠️ ☠️☠️☠️☠️ 5/5 highest rating 1984 You can find different information about who made this and what they went on to do elsewhere. I just want to write about the music and my relationship with it. Two of my closest friends were really into it at first. We all livedContinue reading “Corpses As Bedmates – Babaa & Scheibel = 69”
I tell you everything, just not out loud.by .Sue Ann Harkey
https://sueannharkey.bandcamp.com/album/i-tell-you-everything-just-not-out-loud Genre: Freak Folk Rating: World Treasure I wish I were a better writer so I could really give this the review it deserves. My first exposure to this was in 1987. It came along with an issue of the cassette culture zine Sound Choice. It soon became one of my favorite records of allContinue reading “I tell you everything, just not out loud.by .Sue Ann Harkey”
screen time by Thurston Moore
https://thurstonmoore1.bandcamp.com/album/screen-time-2 Genre: Experimental Rating: 📖 📕 📚 📑 💻 Released in 2021 feels like thurston fired up a fatty put on some loren mazzacane connors and thought goddamn i need to do some of this often i think we think our idols of yesteryear shouldve been killed and we ignore too much with this releaseContinue reading “screen time by Thurston Moore”
loosies by contron
Genre: Folk Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ released on Bandcamp July 29, 2016 Going by discogs and bandcamp release dates best I can figure, Contron, who just popped into my bandcamp feed with a new single was most active in 2013 and then again in 2019. He’s a lofi folk musician somewhat in the vein of Smog.Continue reading “loosies by contron”
I Live In A Utopia by Ignatz
https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-live-in-a-utopia Genre: Freak Folk Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 6, 2022 This is extraordinarily beautiful ghostly folk music borrowing from the richest traditions. Frankly, if its bad ass you can hear it in this: B. F. Shelton, Roscoe Holcomb, John Fahey, Nick Drake (when you can here those little suicidal hints) , even theContinue reading “I Live In A Utopia by Ignatz”
Warmth Highest 