Musings and more…
A Black Tape For A Blue Girl double feature.
First up is the first new Black Tape video in years, In my memories from the album To Touch the Milky Way.
Next up is Slow Blur from the 1986 album The Rope. This video now available for the first time in a digital format.
Chandeen has a new album coming soon. Titled Mercury Retrograde, it is scheduled to be released 28 February 2020. They have released a song, Vanish, from the upcoming album as a single. The video is below, and you can buy the track now on Bandcamp.
Sometimes, when you mix two things together, you wind up with something greater than the sum of the parts. Here is a great musical example of this process. Start with a short, sweet song written by Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape For A Blue Girl. Now combine it with Love Spirals Downwards’ Suzanne Perry’s lush vocals and Ryan Lum’s guitar, and you get a version of the song that either gives me chills or brings tears to my eyes – or sometimes both.
Oh, and how about some free music?
As I was preparing this post, completely coincidentally, Projekt Records has released the album this song is taken from as a name-your-price (including free) digital release on Bandcamp. The album, of these reminders, is 2-CD tribute to early Black Tape For A blue Girl music. You should definitely get it, and yes you should definitely pay at least something for it. We need to support the artists. I do.
Wonderful dreampop goodness from Hatchie.
Autumn’s Grey Solace have released their newest album, Englelícra. You can download it for just $5 at their Bandcamp site. I’ve been a fan of their ethereal music for years now. You can hear samples of each of the tracks in the video below.
Be sure to check out the rest of their music.
And if you haven’t explored Bandcamp yet, you don’t know what you’re missing.
Always by tiny deaths.
The New Pornographers belt out their classic The Bleeding Heart Show in 2007.
The amazing and wonderful Faun performing Tinta live.
