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2 weeks ago | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Dom Lepore |Zac Djamoos
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Dead Bandit’s self-titled grayscale post-rock album, out now via Quindi Records, and Lisa Crawley’s introspective indie pop EP NEW GIRL SYNDROME!Dead Bandit – S/TGenre: Post-Rock, AmbientFavorite Tracks: “Half Smoked Cigarette,” “The Bug,” “Lucien’s Bitters” A grey sky, a dark forest, obscured by a thin fog—the cover of DEAD BANDIT, the self-titled third album from the transnational post-rock duo, is instructive as to what to expect.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos
It’s our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring omilgop’s achingly emotional slowcore project FUNERAL. As a reminder, today (2/6) is also Bandcamp Friday, where Bandcamp will donate 100% of its proceeds to MusiCares to aid those affected by the devastating Southern California wildfires. We wrote several weeks ago about several great charity compilations available right now where their respective proceeds are also going to various wildfire charities and funds.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Louis Pelingen |Zac Djamoos
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Gabe ‘Nandez & Thomas Maggart’s boom bap masterclass FALSE PROFIT and Quarter Conscious’s urgent and math-y PALETTE! Gabe ‘Nandez & Thomas Maggart – FALSE PROFIT Genre: Hip Hop, Boom Bap Favorite Tracks: “Vader,” “Poppy Seed,” “Lithium” At the start of “Poppy Seed”—one of the singles and highlights from his new album with Thomas Maggart—after a regal piano lilt heralds his arrival, Gabe ‘Nandez makes a promise: “I be going hard as fuck.” He never...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos
All throughout my conversation with Downhaul vocalist/guitarist Gordon Phillips and guitarist Robbie Ludvigsen, they tell me how much they admire SEINFELD’s George Costanza.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos |Dom Lepore
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the sweetly synthy sounds of June LaLonde’s FLOATING ROOMS and the vintage indie rock energy of Starflyer 59’s LUST FOR GOLD! June LaLonde – FLOATING ROOMSGenre: Indietronica, SynthpopFavorite Tracks: “Heartfelts,” “Grey Eminence,” “Dama Dama,” “Petrichor”Upon my revisit a decade after its release, June LaLonde’s geometric alt-dance odyssey FLOATING ROOMS is still wondrous.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos |CJ Simonson
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Cise Greeny’s colorful stream of consciousness rap record MASTER SWORD and SUSS’s sweeping ambient country album BIRDS & BEASTS!Cise Greeny – MASTER SWORDGenre: Art RapFavorite Tracks: “GERUDO’S FORTRESS,” “HEART CONTAINER,” “PRETTY SOLID GROOVE”Cise Greeny is one busy nerd. Part of a burgeoning class of earnest New York rappers like Fatboi Sharif, Phiik, Lungs, and S!LENCE, the Queens’ artist has been nothing if not prolific over the last few years.
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May 31, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos
It’s our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring Extra Arms’ sticky, hooky power pop gem RADAR! Extra Arms – RADARGenre: Power Pop Favorite Tracks: “All Good Things Take Time,” “I Don’t Wanna Surrender,” “Shut Em Down”There is an inherent simplicity to power pop, and Extra Arms’ new LP, RADAR, captures it perfectly. Unpretentious and instantly gratifying, it’s like audio cotton candy: light, bright, fluffy, sticky, and sweet.
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May 31, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick crept onto the scene in fall of 2020 with WAYS OF HEARING, a charming blend of slowcore, chamber pop, and emo; it was the soundtrack for many, many winter nights around that time—the perfect music for the early nights, the colder temperatures, the loneliness of that moment.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring C Turtle’s joyously messy EXPENSIVE THRILLS and Balmora and Since My Beloved’s punishing split SIX PACTS ETCHED IN BLOOD!C Turtle – EXPENSIVE THRILLSGenre: Indie Rock Favorite Tracks: “Melvin Said This,” “How Many Birds”I spend heaps of time on TikTok. (I wouldn’t recommend.) The prevailing thread from influencers is that there’s no new music—everything’s a death rattle of your parents’ 8-track collection.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Zac Djamoos
Welcome to our Bandcacamp Picks of the Week, featuring Golden Boots’ freaked out alt-country album LIQUID RANCH and Gulfer’s career best album THIRD WIND! Golden Boots – LIQUID RANCHGenre: Alt-CountryFavorite Tracks: “Skylight,” “Odd Essay,” “Lookout!”Recently, I went by myself to see Explosions in the Sky. What I thought was going to be a nice evening of quietly emoting in a corner to cinematic post-rock instead began with Golden Boots.
