Camp Cope

Camp Cope are a three-piece indie/alternative band from Melbourne, Australia that got started in 2015. Their debut full-length came out last year, which has garnered nothing but incredibly positive attention. These eight tracks feature brilliant songwriting and lyricism that fans of Hop Along, P.S. Eliot, and Courtney Barnett will definitely dig. With one fantastic album under their belt already, they're definitely a band to look out for. They've been requested to death, so here it is, long overdue (as usual). Enjoy!

Camp Cope (2016)

1. Done

2. Flesh & Electricty

3. West Side Story

4. Lost (Season One)

5. Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams

6. Trepidation

7. Stove Lighter

8. Song For Charlie

Camp Cope/Cayetana (2017)

1. Camp Cope - Keep Growing

2. Cayetana - Mesa

3. Camp Cope - Footscray Statino

4. Cayetana - Trails

How To Socialise & Make Friends (2018)

1. The Opener

2. How to Socialise & Make Friends

3. The Face of God

4. Anna

5. Sagan-Indianna

6. The Omen

7. Animal & Real

8. UFO Lighter

9. I've Got You

Running With The Hurricane (2022)

1. Caroline

2. Running With The Hurricane

3. One Wink At A Time

4. Blue

5. The Screaming Planet

6. Love Like You Do

7. Jealous

8. The Mountain

9. Say The Line

10. Sing Your Heart Out

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The Pitys

Band submission. The Pitys are a punk band from Melbourne, Australia. "For the album we aimed to harken back to a rawer, more exciting style of punk, drawing lyrically and musically from the charged style of those early 70's punk bands."

"We originally planned to record a four track EP but after managing to record the first four tracks in half a day, we realised that they may as well see how many tracks we can put down with the studio time we had booked, all up, we managed to record the entire nine track album in two and a half days, with two more days for mixing. The result is an album that is brimming with energetic excitement, hard hitting riffs and satirically sharp lyrics."

This is awesome, catchy but gritty, super energetic stuff with Jello Biafra or Lux Interior-level charismatic vocals. They manage to keep things consistent but exciting throughout, and pump out 9 great songs. Check it out, I'm definitely enjoying this.

Being An Embarassment (2013)

1. Happy After All

2. 51st

3. Melbourne Fix

4. Underdog

5. Made Of Plastic

6. Pious Punk

7. Doomed Generation

8. Single Click Activist

9. Really Wanna Hula Hola

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ISIYM

Band submission. ISIYM are from Melbourne, Australia, and they completely blew me away. Listening through their EP Pineapple Head through for the first time left me in complete awe. It's really refreshing to hear something that really pushes the boundaries of labels and conventions. The entire time they kept pulling out new ideas that kept things very interesting and engaging, with this constant sense of anticipation as to what they were going to do next. They'd go from guttural hardcore vocals to Beach Boys-esque harmonies, and incorporate elements of various genres including garage rock, post-hardcore, alternative rock, and post-punk. I suppose at their core they are a punk band, since they consistently deliver a very raw and energetic quality to every song. They go all out with that at some points, and other times fuse it with some very poppy and melodic sensibilities. Sometimes songs include both of these aspects. Their diversity is astounding, but their ability to execute these different dynamics is also done excellently. Their isn't any point on here that I feel like I'm listening to a different band or that they're forcing a part into their sound. It's all natural, and all awesome. I was kind of reminded of The Men (not that the two sound very much alike) because of this, since they're rooted in punk but are able to integrate many other sounds into the mix to keep things distinct and interesting. I would highly, highly recommend anybody checking this out. Seriously. You can download or buy it from their Bandcamp.

Pineapple Head (2012)

1. Untitled

2. Doomsday Preachers (Give Me The Shits)

3. Thought Eve

4. My Baby Monique

5. Adelaide

6. Fugue State

7. Paint Your Veins

8. Glass

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Elevator Talk

Band-submitted. Elevator Talk are a four-piece band from Melbourne, Australia. Their style of music is very akin to that of This Town Needs Guns, particularly their early stuff. The guitar parts are very complex and intricate, as is expected from a math rock band, but also melodic, much like the American Football/Owls-influenced component of TTNG. Elevator Talk does sound a lot like them, but they execute this sound so well that I don't ever get the sense that they're a gimmicky rip-off or anything of that sort. They pull it off amazingly well, I think, and everything is just spot-on. The vocals are also of particular note. They are female-fronted, and their singer brings a very unique aspect to the mix with her voice. It's very gentle and melodic as you would expect, but the actual tone of it is quite unique. There's a certain quality to it that I found somewhat unexpected for this style of music (perhaps because I immediately thought of the football, etc. singer and was kind of caught off guard, for whatever reason) but somewhat fits so exquisitely. It's deeper, I guess you could say, but not necessarily low. There's still a very feminine characteristic to it, but it sounds very full as well. Her voice also takes more influence from the indie aspect of things than the emo side, which I think has adds a whole other dynamic to the band's music that compliments it perfectly. This is a great EP, and I'm personally loving it. I would definitely and highly recommend checking it out, especially if you're into TTNG (in case you somehow didn't get that already, aha).

Elevator Talk (2013)

1. #1

2. #2

3. #3

4. #4

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