Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire vendors — doing business in an Elizabethan England speckled by the mythical lore of creatures like mermaids — see “the real world” as everything beyond the walls
Danielfuzztone formally entered our consciousness with a strong and realized debut album (
Thoughts & Abandonment) on Bandcamp. As expected given the enormous recorded backlog he s amassed, it didn t take long for more releases to follow. But, besides repping our city well with their substance, the inspiration for his two latest singles are maybe some of the most creative references to Orlando history ever.
The most recent nod to Orlando s past is the hilariously titled Peter Murphy Always Cancels Twice. Oh, remember that stretch of history-making folly from 2019?
Those two consecutive Bauhaus abortions at the Plaza Live were a stranger-than-fiction series of events that cumulatively now live in Orlando music infamy, casting Murphy in the flame of effigy and David J in the glow of halo. The Bandcamp liner notes of the two-track single say it all: For fun, Google Peter Murphy and Orlando.
Ethereal Interface, the audiovisual collaboration between Orlando s Modal Plane and Chicago s Sara Goodman.
Dream Logs is 15 tracks of ambient downbeat music that, though abstract, is done with structure, motion and intelligibility.
It s available digitally on Circuit Church s Bandcamp, but for the full multimedia experience, it s also available on both cassette and VHS. click to enlarge Less-than-prolific Orlando band
Copper Bones produce so little output that any release by the quality two-piece rock duo is newsworthy. The recent Bottomfeeder, available on Bandcamp, is their first record since their 2016 debut album,
Exhibit A. Though just a morsel of a single, Bottomfeeder is a hard-rock crusher that s three and a half solid minutes of beef and crunch.