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I gotta write a column this afternoon, so I don't have time to post all the raw Bandcamp shit that I would very much like to post today. But there is so much stuff out! So let me just say:
Hanna Hirsch!
https://adagio830-records.bandcamp.com/album/g-hem-ver-himlen
Left Behind!
https://purenoise.bandcamp.com/album/no-one-goes-to-heaven
Raw Hex!
https://rawhex.bandcamp.com/album/always-high-always-low
It says "I Have Made A Place" on the cover, and there's a song with that title on the album. But according to the press release and the Bandcamp page, the actual title is 'I Made A Place,' so that's what I went with.
This guy doesn't make anything easy for us.
The press release just says "project," but that's dumb and vague, and I don't feel comfortable calling a seven-song release an album unless it's Godspeed You! Black Emperor or something.
When songs are going to get Premature Evaluation reviews, they're out of contention for Album Of The Week.
(I like the Never Ending Game album probably better than the Lindstrøm one, but I didn't get an advance of that one.)
