One Time On Bandcamp...

monthly reviews of the latest releases on Bandcamp

[alphabet-is-a-sheep]

Straight people be like ‘it’s octopi not octopuses’ and then misgender you

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[hustlerose]

Out of Touch Thursday

[arbyscurlyfries666-deactivated2]

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[snuv]

but im out of my head when you’re not around…

[peachy-pups-deactivated20250217]

It’s Out Of Touch Thursday, babey!!!!

[hundondestiny]

[theinconsistent]

Isn’t this the same dude that adopted two puppies because he wouldn’t separate them?

[hundondestiny]

yes and i think it’s cute that that’s what you know him from. his impact.

[viktorhargreves]

- SOPHIE HEAWOOD

[ostolero]

[pepoline13]

Cat’s noses

[sunnymeddows]

[lubricates]

this just made my day

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

If US foreign policy was domestic policy I feel like a lot more Americans would become opposed to capitalism lol

[hopelesspixel]

I figure US foreign policy is actually a benefit given to American Voters. A coalition See's the forming and shaping of the world at large as a public good given to them and every American.

You're right. But saying "Americans would hate it if the government intentionally destabilized itself" isn't really a hot take

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

I’m honestly not trying to make a hot take...I’m just speaking out loud lol.

There’s also more to US foreign policy than ‘destabilizing government’, a lot is replacing the government (regime change) with one that profits US government and corporations more while suppressing citizens who get in the way, like Pinochet in Chile. Or straight up bombing people.

[minisoc]

the US doesnt have a distinct foreign vs domestic policy; imperialism is the policy, in both domains. the open murder of (mainly) black and native people by state forces or by militias who are never effectively combatted, the austerity policies and crippling poverty inflicted on the working class, the destruction of the natural world, all are the same.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

I swear the Liberals are just trolling us at this point https://twitter.com/sdbcraig/status/1177279327366516736

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[apersnicketylemon]

Found this on Facebook, and if isn’t the biggest elxn43 mood I’ve seen yet… 

[onetimeonbandcamp]

One Time on Bandcamp...

This is a music critique blog. I’m gonna call it ‘critique’ rather than ‘review’ because I don’t want to talk about art as a commodity. I don’t want to describe an artist’s work like a coffee table or a bed frame. Music review has its place, absolutely, but that’s not how I’m gonna talk on this blog. This is less Pitchfork and more high school book report. 

The concept is pretty simple, every month I’m going to be taking a look at one of the most recent uploads to Bandcamp. Not the best selling new releases necessarily, just whatever happened to be uploaded last when I check. I’m doing this for a couple of reasons; mostly because I really want to expose myself to new and exciting music and this seems like a pretty good way to get a steady stream of projects I might not have otherwise heard of. I’m also doing it because I’m also a bedroom producer making music on my PC and trying to build an audience, and we gotta stick together and look out for each other, right? 

You see why I feel the need to be careful here. I don’t want to be some prick randomly stumbling upon some teenager’s first attempt at music and then shitting on it and giving it -9000/10 stars or whatever, even if I have no audience and I’m really only doing this for myself that would be totally unnecessarily harsh. I want to look at every piece on its own merits, try to find the bad and the good, highlight what I like, and mostly try to analyze each album the same way an art critic would analyze a painting. 

For this reason I’m not going to be giving scores or ratings. I don’t think that’s fair and I think it goes against the whole idea of art critique vs. art review. I’m also not going to be giving recommendations. I’m going to discuss each album, what I found interesting about it, leave a link, and let you decide if you want to support the artist or not. I will be purchasing every album I look at just because that really only seems fair, and if they release it on a pay what you want method I will be using the $1/song Itunes method. Again, us indies gotta stick together. 

Expect essay form critique of themes, basic dips into music theory and songwriting, and a lot of subjectivity. I’m also gonna try to be as accessible as I can, and when I do inevitably dip into music theory I will intentionally use non-academic language because fuck elitism. I will be describing my personal interpretations of the themes and my reading and understanding of the text. Again, this is media critique, not review. 

Hope this goes well.