#Independent Musician

[riainceol]

Dia daoibh, is mise Riain Mac Aoidh, I’m an independent musician from the North of Ireland.

Today is Bandcamp Friday and whilst I don’t have anything new to share today, did you know that my back catalogue contains a bunch of cool songs, and if you’re reading this post it’s about stuff you probably also care about?

Let’s take a look at a couple of my personal favourites.

Damocles is a song about the struggle of living under a society that wants you dead, as if the inevitability of the world turning on you is a constant pressure. I specifically wrote about my own experience with autism but we’re far from the only people who live with that pressure and doom.

Quite An Experience To Live In Fear was written about the “trans panic” in the UK and the US. While it is difficult to live with that spectre looming over you, the title is actually a reference to the people pushing transphobia. People like JK Rowling who have so much money and are granted ultimate security by capitalism are wasting their days in a quixotic campaign against normal people just trying to live their lives. They’re fascists, and fascists are ultimately cowards. They live in fear and drown in hate.

Dead Trees is a song about the older generations and their refusal to pay their lives forward to everyone coming after them. They stand towering over us in society in terms of wealth and influence and they might think they’ll be in that position forever, like towering pagodas, but wooden towers are just dead trees, and everyone dies.

The Kobold stands between you and your goal. He alone holds the key and in order to defeat him you must speak his name aloud for names have power, yet Kobold’s lie. I admit the dungeon music is very out of step with everything else on this list but it’s so fun to make.

I would have loved to have some new music available today but I recently relocated and am not set up to work. In fact I’ve been in this transition for a good couple of months now. If you’ve never supported my music before, now is a really good time to do so, as it helps this process go smoother for me and gets me back on track as soon as possible.

You can find these tracks and loads more like them here.

And if you can’t afford to buy anything right now, all of my music on my Bandcamp page has unlimited plays.

Go raibh míle maith agaibh agus Bandcamp Friday shona daoibh.

[gazzarrigirl87]

"Where has rock n roll gone?" It's right here in my heart baby, with a paperweight over it

[djnusagi]

Hi, so because a lot of people have followed me on here because of my posts and not my music, I figured I would make a playlist of my most popular and (in my opinion) best songs that you can check out!

Also just in general I would love for any of you to check out my album MANGADEX, I’m so proud of it and it’s on all major streaming services.

I’m also working on a follow up to it called kissanime, which is a direct companion piece and should be out this year :3

[nicosta-music]

Demonology is out now, y'all! Thank you for listening to yet another of my silly little albums <3

Visit the link in bio/link below to stream if you haven't already :)

[kuhusaha]

Often, I tend to see myself as a secondary character in my own life. I wrote Stay with the same feelings of not being the one and just a temporary stop in someone's life. I believe society tends to label and box people up in archetypes and I always saw myself as the girl that the main character dates until they realise that they were in fact in love with their best friend all along. If you have ever felt that way, maybe this could become a song we cry and bond over.❤️

I would be so grateful if you could check out and support the song and the music video!🫶

[cobys-trans-agenda]

i just made a soundcloud for my music, and uploaded a short little beat i made. Check it out :)

the cover is a weirdcore edit i made (with my own photo). listen if you want and keep in mind im pretty new to making music !!

[mushroomsleepy]

Hello! I hope you're having a nice day. This is my new song on soundcloud. It's about the complicated relationship I have with my mum.

I think it's just a societal expectation or even an obligation for a parent and child to love each other. It seems like a bit of an obvious thing, but as I've gotten a bit older, I've started to change my thinking towards authority figures, really seeing them as their own conscious being; realising that they're individuals too with their own emotions, complex minds, and a whole history behind them. I've realised that they're not scary tyrants who want to rule over my life, they're just people. We're all just people.

Over the years I've really struggled with my relationship with my mum. However, I'm realising more and more that it's just as much a struggle for her as it is for me. Maybe I was just too young to understand that before, or maybe I'm just a horrible child, but I think we're finally getting to a point where we're trying to understand each other; starting to love each other for who we are and not just out of stilted obligation.

I hope this song can help anyone with a similar experience. Thank you so much for listening, it means a lot to me :)

[aroundx5am]

'you' coming jan 2nd! 👽

*trigger ⚠️ : flashing/strobing for first 5 seconds

-

x (29 december 2024)

hi everyone!

I'm 5.00AM, and this is actually my first post on tumblr (now my website!)

I'm here to share my music with you - and I hope it brings you as much pleasure and comfort as it does for me.

Feel free to check out my social medias (insta, tiktok, spotify, youtube). I am an independent, french, up-and-coming queer artist/guitarist so I am trying to share my work and gain visibility

°°°

This track tells the story of loss and grief. The sensation of not just losing someone but losing everything around them too - and the roots of yourself that have grown around them. This work means a lot to me, so I can't wait for the full version to be released publicly in jan.

Thanks for coming this far if you have, merci

5.00AM

[n0vilunium]

hello! i have decided to resort to attempting to promote my music on tumblr because i despise tiktok. i am an independent musician. i make music for lesbians, people who love horror and the gothic, people (read: lesbians) who think they might be a little bit evil and those who crave theatricality, whimsy and experimentation in the art they consume.

i write, record and produce all my music myself. it would mean a lot to me if you’d check it out!

🌙 you might like my sound if you are interested in the following artists:

kate bush

the last dinner party

paris paloma

lana del ray

marina

will wood

caroline polachek

tori amos

fever ray

🌙 and you might be interested in my themes if you like the following media:

the magnus archives

ginger snaps

jennifer’s body

yellowjackets

buffy the vampire slayer

gothic novels

anything where women are a bit grotesque, evil, monstrous etc.

anything exploring female hysteria, female rage etc.

good omens

anything and everything written by Jenni Fagan

thanks for reading this far! times are kind of desperate for independent musicians. any stream, share, follow etc. really helps me so so much (i’m currently working 4 jobs and would be obsessed with getting to not do that and focus more on music)

so much love to you and many thanks again!!! 🪽💫

[noraqrosa]

hello all, we need help keeping our still unhoused selves over Christmas and beyond

$0/$240 - around 240 munny units would allow us to stay at our current cheap hotel

lynx & etc to contribute help:

https://linktr.ee/IzukuLeeYoung has all our donate lynx

https://odiohi.me/pages/product-categories brings you to my store, where you can get my muics & @kirlian-light's comic

• @izukuleeyoung has been taking emergency commissions and has been getting them done skillfully & quickly. i also take commissions, for music, audio work, and abstract visuals (including Spotify Canvases) if you'd like.

pls help if you can, even if it's just to reblog this

while you're here, who's your favorite electronic artist? it's ok i won't be (too) upset if the answer isn't me🥺🥺🥺

pic for attn:

[pelman]

i was born so that means you should go listen to my album or be a NERD

[riainceol]

Dhia daoibh, Riain anseo,

My new record Dead Trees is available for pre orders today and at a special price!

It’s all acoustic, hybrid production between tape deck and digital, super out of my comfort zone, but these are some of my favourite songs I’ve ever written.

You can find it here at

riainmacaoidh.bandcamp.com

and the full record releases on March 1st.

Thank you so much for all your support.

[share-that-art-love]

So, this is one of my fave musicians, Psychonaudia! His music has a lot of stylistic variety, but the majority fall somewhere in the electronic genre. Subgenres abound as well.

This is his latest release on SoundCloud.

Music critique or commentary aren't things I'm really skilled at, but I'll put some notes and thoughts below:

It's got a melody that evokes energy, light heartedness, and curiosity, as its name suggests. Absolutely could dance to this! It's not super dirty/grimy, though I would say the low end has some elements of this. The higher end and mids keep a sort of jovial feel to them. Overall, the layers of this track are tasteful, clean, and complex.

[djnusagi]

what do we think of this tho?

[nicosta-music]

Roots is out now!

This song means so much to me and I'm so happy to be finally sharing the studio version with y'all. It's a record of myself, my family, and where we come from. Link in bio to stream or purchase on Bandcamp!

🎨 hxppyhxt

[absolute-eyesore]

KILL THE CAROLS by GL1TCH//H0UND

... out now for Bandcamp Friday! A special release for those of us trapped in this end of year hell. A very noisy and disturbed time, here's another contribution to the war on christmas.

special thanks to @lokifreign and @veresiine for suggestions on what songs to destroy.

Times are tough! Support us on ko-fi or read through this post to help us out.