Groovy Tunes: Campin With Some Bands

I have a powerful compulsion to always be discovering new music, and Bandcamp has been coming in very handy for that lately. When people say there's no good music being made anymore, what they're really saying is "I'm okay with hearing Back In Black and Tom Sawyer on the radio 50 billion more times until i die, and i don't need to hear anything else."

If that's how you feel, just be honest about it. But it's true that most of what you hear on the radio is dogshit these days, so finding cool new bands requires just the teensiest bit of effort, something most people recoil from in horror.

Once you start actively searching for Groovy Tunes, the universe rewards you with abundance. It's called the power of attraction, simply ask and ye shall receive. I've been asking long enough that i've become an enlightened music magnet. It comes to me now. I've got so many cool new bands, rappers, and sexy jazz ladies flying at me i literally cannot stop my ears from cumming.

Here are some albums i listened to last night while sunken into my bed on edibles. Most of these artists are tagged under the newfangled genres of "noise rock" and "shoegaze", which i do not understand at all because I'm in my 30s.

But i like making noise and i am the Footwear Man so i should know a thing or two about gazing at shoes. Come with me on a journey to understand what the kids are listening to these days. Open your ear pussies and expand your taste with me.

PANIKATAX - White Water Rafting

This is an Irish punk band with elements of noise, honestly you had me at Irish and punk. i can confirm that these guys are indeed punk as fuck because this shit rules. With vocals that sound like they fucking hurt and driving grooves that would sound right at home in a Tony Hawk game.

The Boom Is Back opens the ep riding on a very cool sound i can't even describe but i think is probably coming from a guitar somehow, before exploding into a thrashing fury, and it all just keeps exploding from there.

Fire in the Hole is relentless and frenzied and the last track, Diseased, has an infectious swing to it that bops you around while also blowing your speakers out. A very cool band that i will definitely be keeping an eye on.

Mason Andrew Freak - Worm Food and the Disappointment

This is pure cacophonous calamity, a confusing assault of overlapping sounds that somehow never clash. Underneath all the dissonant chaos there are just enough hints of melody to hold it all together and the result is something really unique. It sounds like a new genre being born, gorily.

This guy's Bandcamp bio describes him as a schizophrenic and you can absolutely tell. It sounds like real outsider art and even gives me a faint Daniel Johnston vibe, with some acoustic guitar and vulnerable caterwauling coming through from the center of a distortion tornado. Very eclectic, very odd, very satisfying.

Land Whales - Libelula

This one opens with an atmospheric wall of distortion and fuzz, and vocals that swing back and forth on a dime from hauntingly distant to shreddingly intense. Then the 2nd track features some Rod Serling-esque spoken word over scary fart music from a Silent Hill toilet.

Track 3 is catchy and has a great vibe, like surfing through a water tunnel on a purple sea. Suddenly on track 4 some nice vocal harmonies appear. There's also some nifty drumming on this track and a driving surge of noise that seems to be continuously escalating throughout like a Mario 64 staircase of guitar abuse. Then on track 5... i don't even know what the Hell's going on, but i like it.

All together an impressively eclectic mix of sounds on this album. Quite an experience. Thanks for the recommendation, me.