Blog - Dying For Bad Music

Slight Birching ~ Cultural Envelope

2014 # bedroom folk, psychedelic, lo-fi

Seeing a cover collage like this implies some "kosmische" synth musik that keeps me away from press play. But they tagged themselves as "American Primitive" on their bandcamp page. So what's the deal here? It's a mixed …

Jaye Bartell ~ Loyalty

2013 # Psychedelic pop, outsider music, country, space-folk

I accidently clicked somewhere a link to youtube and ended up at a weird video by Jaye Bartell. I liked his voice from the beginning, it was haunting and it sounded almost a bit off. It reminded me on something I wasn't able to name. Later I foun …

Psychic Lines ~ Everything Keeps Getting Brighter

2013 # indie pop

A week ago we had Zachary Cale over here in the Ore Mountains, together with his friend Phil Glauberzon who's playing keys in Cale's band and supports him on the organ, on their current Europe Tour (see dates). Phil played 3 songs first a …

Andrew Bowsher ~ Porthcawl Primitive

2011 # american primitive, psych folk, lofi

Andrew Bowsher from the UK is another steel string wizard with a more experimental approach. In Porthcawl Primitive he mixes field recordings into his tunes to create a geographic reference point (or just to let you trippin' a bit harder) and tap …

James Tweeddale ~ Passage

2013 # american primitive, solo guitar, blues

Fredericksburg, Virginia brought up at least two great and well known guitarists, Daniel Bachman and Jack Rose. The first one is pretty much influenced by the latter one, who is dead - unfortunately. But since solo acoustic guitar music got some more …