SPACE CAMP releases their record Gold Star into the world on January 13. Rong and Bricklayer help them wrench it forward from the ether.
SPACE CAMP is a two piece experimental project from South Windsor, Connecticut. Once described as “non-denominational, non-binary hardcore,” SPACE CAMP is genreless but painfully sincere - they channel all of the trappings of hardcore, metal, and the avant-garde using keyboards, trombone, and a drum set. They write songs about survival, despair, gender dysphoria, gender euphoria, anger, and hope. The best way to understand it is to hear it.
Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4lYV3Lb1NcJ68Q8ypjeVhF?si=xD9lEP8oTVacS5qda4p6bg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/spacecampct
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SPACECAMPCT
Dynamic. Explosive. Comprised of seven big chillers. Of course we're talking about Bricklayer, the seven-person rock outfit from Boston, MA. Formed in late 2021, Bricklayer asks: is all of this going to fit on the stage? The answer: IT MUST. Bricklayer sounds like an electric current being fed through an unwitting technicolor pony as conduit. The range is unreal - from head-bopping synth bangers reminiscent of the B-52s to heady meditative palettes that conjure Osees's darker places, Bricklayer has it all. You will want to throw your 'bows and shake your ass the entire time.
Bricklayer suggests that two drummers are better than one, scream-singing about your feelings is sexy again, and bigger is contextually better. So get ready, 'cuz they're coming in hot with the mortar.
Music: https://bricklayer-boston.bandcamp.com/album/demos-for-big-chillers
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bricklayer_boston
Rong: overwhelms your senses, pummels them into mush, and then gives you some loving aftercare. Heavy and weird, Rong makes health goth jock jams for your neoliberal hellscape, "good to scrub basement mold to".
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