My Favorite Tracks off Specials 2 (if I am forced to choose):
Best Side: A
All very familiar but still original. Warm, safe, nostalgic but fresh somehow.
Perfect music to back a slide show of old family photos.
A quite fetching j-card too.
Pasquale Specials 2 is off Hand’ Solo Records.
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I am enjoying having this blog more and more; now I am even getting demo tapes.
Indie folk, bedroom pop, demo tape called “Pisces” that was sent to me from a cool dude in Southern California who goes by Pisces, in fact.
Sounds like some nice songs to me. I will be watching/listening for a finished album version in the future. But for now, there are only 50 copies of Pisces Demo, and I have one, so there are only 49 at the most. Get one for yourself.
Pisces is on the label, Hospital Soap.
Thank you for the tape, Casey!
There is a little bit of Space Mountain Late Night feel happening. And I like it.
Plays at the edge of mysterious.
At times, it is what my brain sounds like after seven beers.
It may be only four tracks, but two of them are very long, so you’re good. Hauntingly good.
Order of the Wire Mother is an experimental, harsh, transcendental noise outfit out of Minneapolis. They are on the Bumpy Records label.
Come along with Sean, exploring back alleys and vacant buildings, with his fingerstyle guitar playing. “Let Peace Brood Over This Carcass: Rust Belt Guitar Soli” is a collection recorded on a digital 8-track between 2022 and 2025, remastered for cassette. It is a limited run; only 100 tapes exist.
Some of my favorite tracks include:
Sean Hendley is out of Milwaukee, WI.
Label: Gnostic Recordings.
Lo-Fi experimental bedroom pop from New York. Only 50 tapes exist, and I am lucky enough to have #33.
Favorite Tracks:
Let go, have some fun, let Bonce comfort you.
Bonus: I love that he has a neocites site.
The album “a veil, a prism” by alone-a
One line review:
Music that is shaped into care for something deep inside you.
Good tape to have on:
Favorite tracks:
Currently, the cassette is available for only $5.
This tape was put out by Bumpy Records.
Great lines. Accessible but still edgy. A perfect mix of old and current hip-hop. I listened through, non-stop, twice.
Favorite Tracks:
Get your mind right and check out The Honey Bear Saga from Mickey O’Brien.
This is off the label, Hand’Solo Records.
And I love the playing card-style box it comes in: