u/Competitive_Heat_846

Dank Carnival

https://marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/album/dank-carnival

It's always autumn here. Has the world ended, or is it only that seasons have stopped changing? No one knows, least of all us.

Dank Carnival sets up in the parking lots of abandoned malls, haunted by the hungry ghosts of consumers with nothing left to buy. The suburbs seem deserted but still, at twilight, people come and tear off tickets and put on wristbands that grant them unlimited rides. Games of skill, games of chance, we don't care if you play or not. No one ever barks at you, not even the dogs. The stuffed toy prizes might be taxidermy, except for the way their eyes follow you.

An old woman sits outside a crumpled trailer spinning cotton candy. The colors are pure poison but it tastes delicious. If you're patient, she'll spin it into threads and tailor a suit for you. She has been with the carnival longer than anyone. The oldest dog is hers. In earlier days it was part of the freak show, but that's not why it has two heads.

If I were you, I'd skip the rides, stride boldly past the chained dogs on the midway, decline the massive lollipops, and head to the farthest corner of the lot, where the band is just now striking up. They're not the regular carnival band--no one knows what happened to that one. But they've been traveling with the wagons for a while and they've learned a few of the old band's numbers just to keep management happy. But every now and then they will throw in a few of their own, which no one has ever quite heard before.

These are those songs.

And you can redeem a free code for them here...

https://marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/yum

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u/Competitive_Heat_846 — 7 days ago
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https://marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-pulse

My first album AFTER THE PULSE has been out for a bit over a year now. It's psychedelic folk rock that sort of oozes between these vague generalizations and is sometimes sharper in one than another. Here's a more poetic description of the album from the liner notes:

"After the global EMP attack took down the digital grid, we were forced to fall back on our old instruments, acoustic and electric--and our oldest instrument, our voice. A few analog synths survived among the ruins, wobbly and out of tune but beloved all the same. These are the songs we composed with them, made out of whatever memories we hadn't surrendered to the AIs, meant to sing around the smoldering dumpster fire of our former lives."

And a review from AddToWantlist:

"The Los Angeles-based writer weaves personal memories into compelling narratives, set against a rich backdrop of acoustic and electric vintage instrumentation. The result is a sound that is quite idiosyncratic—call it electronic alt-country or soulful indie folk—yet it remains both intimate and evocative. Wobbly analog synths, pleasantly weathered vocals, and a thoughtful sonic palette create a warm atmosphere, but above all, the ten songs here are defined by its memorable lyrics and inventive storytelling. Most catchy is Mama Never Went Electric: “We learned to read from the cover of a Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP // Mama sang us to sleep with traditional tunes of the Partridge Family..”—just listen to hear where that leads."

It's kind of stalled out on Bandcamp, all my friends already have it (lol), so I figured I would throw open the screen door to others who might enjoy this sort of thing.

I think you know the drill. Go here to redeem the free codes.

https://marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/yum

If these are all redeemed, I will post more...I have close to a hundred gathering dust. Thanks in advance for your curiosity. I know there's literally a million other things that came out today that you could be listening to instead.

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u/Competitive_Heat_846 — 14 days ago