Bandcamp Blitz - June 15th, 2019

Many things happening all at once at Nerve Salad HQ. Almost too busy to think. Resting an injury, messing with CD production work. Strippers In Love CDs and cassettes ARE being manufactured and are on the way. I had no idea it would be so much work. Straight to the Blitz! Other news to follow soon!


THE BLITZ:

Frank Hurricane and Hurricanes Of Love - Life Is Spiritual
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-spiritual
(A classy release. Backwaters, back roads, back woods, back doors, and backtalk. The joke is on you, America... laugh and cry, celebrate and pule. Swampy biographies, when all's said and done, makes for moments of enlightened astonishment. Americana/blues as told from a mud puddle in a truck stop parking lot.)

Groovy Movies - Psychedelic Barbershop
https://groovymovies.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-barbershop
(CA's Groovy Movies return with full force. '60s psych, nostalgic smacks. You just have to listen to this whole album in order to appreciate what's going on here. Literally pokes at every psych-y, California-soundy, beachcomby, oldies feels... very far out, man...)

Ian Blurton - Signals Through The Flames
https://ianblurton.bandcamp.com/album/signals-through-the-flames
(Let's not joke around here... this is really good. Public Animal's Ian Blurton fucking RULES. RULES!!! Heavy metal riffs never made me feel so awesome. Summertime metal that will meet ALL of your hard rocking, thrashing, threshing, road tripping, rock climbing, woods meandering, fish catching needs. Well, MY needs anyway. Don't even fuck around... just get this. Vinyl options soon & I'm on it.)

Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy
https://fleshofthestars.bandcamp.com/album/mercy
(I've raved about this band in the past, so it's only fair that I jump in for their newest stuff. Once they get their doomy hooks into you, you're done for. Chicago brings the fine atmospheric stoner doom in the form of Flesh Of The Stars. Behold.)

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/album/titanic-rising
(A weird one, this. Sub Pop brings yet another band I can't describe. Folky, soundtrack-y, wistful/playful/grandiose. Chamber folk music with a layer of very colorful, sparkly mold on top.)

Shrug - Easy Is The New Hard
https://shrug.com/album/easy-is-the-new-hard
(Awesome Americana with a dibbly dabbly of glammy slammy. Your C-minus students mosey around the city and, smelling like cigs and Pabst, re-create their lives in song. Trucker caps and sleeveless flannels are not included. This album will likely be around me for a while. Good stuff, Maynard.)