Death Cab, Los Campesinos!, Lee Ranaldo & more release Bandcamp day exclusives
It’s the May edition of Bandcamp Friday, the monthly series where the digital music service cuts their portion of the proceeds in order to directly benefit artists who are struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, like every other Bandcamp Friday, artists have released a number of special releases, some of which you can check out below.
Los Campesinos! – Whole Damn Body
Los Campesinos! have released Whole Damn Body, an EP-length compilation of remastered 7″ and standalone tracks from the Hello Sadness era, “available digitally for the first time.”
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Death Cab For Cutie – Live at The Showbox
Death Cab have released a live album of the warm-up show they played in early 2020 at The Showbox in Seattle for the tour that never happened. Opening track “A Movie Script Ending” is streaming and you have to purchase it to hear the other 16. It’s only available for 24 hours, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the National Independent Venue Association.
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Lee Ranaldo – Broken Circle / Spiral Hill
Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo has given a Bandcamp release to Broken Circle / Spiral Hill, initially a CD-only 1994 release that collected some of Lee’s early ’90s tracks, including an “impromptu” cover of Sebadoh/Lou Barlow’s “Brand New Love.”
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Live from Welcome to 1979
As he’s done on several Bandcamp Fridays, Jason Isbell put out a live album. This one was recorded at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville, TN on 11/11/16 and it features six songs, one of which is streaming and the rest of which you need to purchase to hear. He’s also selling a print of the show flyer, screenprinted on 12×18 paper.
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Fucked Up – “Year of the Horse – Act Four” (ft. Julien Baker)
Fucked Up have put out the fourth and final act of their “Year of the Horse” entry of their ongoing Zodiac series, and following act three ft. Matt Berninger, this one features Julien Baker, who’s appeared more than once on Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham’s Turned Out A Punk podcast. It also features vocals by Eidolon, Tuka Mohammed, Maegan Brooks Mills, and T. Mohammed.
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Marissa Nadler – Instead of Dreaming
Several Bandcamp Fridays have seen Marissa Nadler release cover songs, and today she compiled 10 of those covers for Instead of Dreaming. It’s available digitally and also on a Bandcamp-exclusive cassette.
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Farseek – “Natty Daddy”
Columbus, Ohio punks Farseek have put out a new version of “Natty Daddy” from their 2016 EP March. Originally a minute-long lo-fi acoustic song, it’s now double in length and much more fleshed-out. “The song felt necessary to revisit as a reminder of the things lost in the last year—the oddities of experiencing the outside world with the necessary spontaneity that keeps the mundane aches of life at bay,” the band says.
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Bikini Kill – Reject All American
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their second and final album, Bikini Kill have released a special pressing of it on opaque aqua vinyl, limited to 500 copies, and available only on Bandcamp.
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