Beat’s best of Bandcamp, featuring Cool Sounds, Ruby Gill, Dannika and more Ruby Gill - image by Michael Ridley
Words by Tom Walters
Spotlighting some of our favourite new releases on Bandcamp right now.
Hello and welcome to Beat’s best of Bandcamp, a fortnightly roundup of the best new Melbourne/Naarm bands and artists making waves on the internet’s most indispensable music platform.
Bandcamp has been incredibly supportive of artists during the COVID-19 crisis with its Bandcamp Friday initiative, where for 24 hours, the site takes no fee and 100% of profits go directly to artists.
If you’ve been meaning to buy some new music, are a seasoned Bandcamp veteran looking for something fresh, or are simply intrigued at what Bandcamp has to offer, then this column will have you covered every two weeks with Victoria’s finest.
The 30 best albums to come out of Melbourne in 2020, part one Blake Scott (image by Mia Mala McDonald) and Sweet Whirl (image by Annie Llewellyn)
Words by Tom Parker
We spotlight the first 15 albums of the two-part feature, ranked in no particular order.
Well that’s a wrap – 2020 is finished, finito, done, dun, gone, seeya, bye, catchya, fuck off… Where am I going with this?
We’re all relieved to say goodbye to the worst year of our lives, and while the grief of 2020 is behind us, there have been many musical nuggets that have helped pull us through.
If it wasn’t for the below albums, I’m not sure we would’ve coped, and so it’s to these artists that we all, Melburnian or not, give our utmost gratitude.