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CAMERON WINTER - HEAVY METAL

December is such a tragically dead month for new releases that it’s a rare gift to get an album this fucking good this late in the year. My friend Marcos sent me a link to Heavy Metal out of the blue a few days after it was released – I don’t always listen to what he sends me, and he knows that, but I’m so glad I went into this with a clear mind and open heart. It’s been ages since a first listen of an album hit me this hard. Lyrically Heavy Metal feels like what I always wanted from Dan Bejar but never quite got, and musically it almost feels like John Cale tried to rerecord Paris 1919 from memory with a single microphone and a cracked Ableton rip. Or something like that? Mostly, it feels like a wholly original statement that can’t be contained, like someone finally letting go of any inhibition and confessing every private insecurity without fear. His lyrics teeter from darkly hilarious (“like Brian Jones I was born to swim”) to bizarrely visceral romanticism (“you were born to break my big hairy football arms/like clean windows kill birds”) while regularly returning to the ultimate questions life has to offer: love, desire, purpose, God, you name it. It’s self deprecating without being self indulgent and immensely wise without ever feeling like an intellectual exercise. It’s an album that feels like too rich of a body of work to even properly engage with on the first several listens. Winter’s emotionality is so deep, so personal and so bizarre that it becomes universal – so relatable yet so exaggerated and disjointed that it borders on psychological horror. I’m going to be picking up on new things within these songs for a long time to come, and I suspect this album will stand out to me as one of the absolute best when I look back at the year. 

@clarke

Dec 30, 2024

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Cameron winters - heavy metal

Not for everyone, but I’ve been listening non-stop. Sadness, remorse, nostalgia, inner turmoil all in one quick album. I’ve been doing a lot of driving in silence & reflecting on life to this album.

@marianoleonczik

Feb 10, 2025

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cameron winter new year

Discovering an album that you cannot. stop. listening to at the end of an era (literally, the end of the year) always feel like it holds a deeper meaning or purpose in your life than those you happen upon in the midst of a season. This album found me as I am entering an entire year of being single, an entire year of being out of college, beginning therapy, and beginning a path towards completely changing my life by moving to a new country. Winter's amateur-ish yet incredibly passionate vocals bring life to humorous, hallucinatory, and anecdotal lyrics. On top of this, the instrumentation ranges from folksy to eclectic, reminiscent of post-punk bands like Black Country, New Road, while maintaining a more whimsical air on the project entirely. This album makes me laugh and cry and feel and yearn. Listen to this in 2025 "GOD IS REAL GOD IS REAL IM NOT KIDDING GOD IS ACTUALLY REAL IM NOT KIDDING THIS TIME I THINK GOD IS ACTUALLY FOR REAL GOD IS REAL GOD IS ACTUALLY REAL GOD IS REAL I WOULDNT JOKE ABOUT THIS IM NOT KIDDING THIS TIME" -$0

@emmmmuh

Dec 31, 2024

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Hey all, i’m releasing an ep in april and i wanted To show you some of my songs :)

I just wanted to share this because I’m hoping some of you guys might like what I got going on. Here are links to my Bandcamp and Spotify Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0fHA3fErtHjba5F4jqxu3u?si=uoI3jYoOT3q8ePLUPmfMZw Bandcamp: https://calebbristol.bandcamp.com There are a few things that never made it onto Spotify, but since today is Friday, I’m hoping you could help me out by taking a look at what I got so far! Hope you all like it :) Caleb wAHb PS. My next EP is called “Early Virgins”, and will be available on both Bandcamp and Spotify April 4th, 2025.

@wahb

Dec 6, 2024

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Hats - the blue nile

This album has the glossy night vibe, it’s got vaporwave elements, and it has emotion that other synth bands from the 80s tried to capture. these folks made something special, and I always try to find albums that have a specific element to them, and this one had it: honesty. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

@wahb

Sep 27, 2024

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Samsonite briefcases

It’s the weirdest thing, but whenever I write my songs, I have this old briefcase my great uncle had that houses my songs, WIPs, and the sheet music I use to write them down. I think it‘s neat.

@wahb

Feb 9, 2025