Recent Finds: The Histrionics, Neurotic Fiction, Sachet, Static In Verona, Telyscopes, Timothy Eerie

Most of the following are songs A) we loved or very much liked and B) were available for free or name-your-price download. Take a listen and decide whether you want to download the songs for $0.00 (or more, your call). We're featuring the songs we liked the most, but there's plenty more in most of the widgets.

For name-your-price download, click here.

Yeah, sometimes it does seem like we and the 'puter are in a relationship, and if that seems strange, wtf are you up to anyhoo? Torontans. Bandcamp Discography. From 2014. (We said recent finds, not necessarily recent releases.) Sorry for getting a bit histrionic. We also liked #13.

Kids in Bristol - Bandcamp Discography

Sydney band sashayed into our lives and made them better. Bandcamp Discography 

Chicago's Rob Merz has been delighting us musically for several years now. Facebook - Bandcamp Discography Here's one we previously posted and still very much love.

We've proclaimed affection a couple of times previously for Mr. Jack Hubble and his work/play with several bands, including Telyscopes. The above is our favorite from his latest LP, High Fidelity Drag, although we also very much like #1, 2, 3, 8, 10, & 14. A bunch of great songs are still available for nypdl at those previous posts. Hey, here's one of those previously posted ditties, in case you want to wet your beak.

This Orlando band is one of our favorite poppsych finds of the year. (Pic at top o' the post) The following will cost you a buck (U.S.), but it's more than worth it. Check out the rest of the EP as well.

Recent Explorations Via Hubble Telyscopes

Remember our post last year on Alexandria, VA's A Marc Train Home, Lenclair, Jack Hubble (or Hubbell), and his band Telyscopes???? (Sure, why not, pp, what are you getting at?) Quite a bit, actually, and thank you for remembering, or pretending to, because we just got emailed word that Jack's been up to more mischief, and it's rather stellar. And by checking it out, we found that almost everything in Telyscopes' Bandcamp catalog is now available for name-your-price download, even the stuff we spent our hard-earned on sometime in April of last year.

We sampled everything we hadn't listened to last year and were frankly enraptured. Jack's an adventurous sort, sometimes perhaps an ooch or twelve more than "necessary," but then that's kind of what we thought about Car Seat Headrest, who is now one hot item in the (admittedly smallish) world of blogs Indie. So who knows what the future holds for Jack and the Telys?

We earmarked lots and lots of Telyscopic discoveries for our personal music library but are highlighting our very favorites.



This is from the latest LP, the one we got the email about. We also particularly liked #1 and #8.



We bought this one last year. You don't have to if you click here.



We also bought this one and the one below, along with #3, 5 & 6. We would call #3 pretty pure power pop but for the fact it's one of the most ribald double p songs we've ever heard. Nothing worse than what one of the two major party presidential candidates has uttered (and done), though.




This one dropped in May of this year. We really liked the following as well: #2, 5, 7, 9, 12, & 13.

Oh, and we enjoyed this videoscopic representation of the previously widgeted song, "Victory."

Ridin' A MARC Train Home & Elsewhere, Including The Telyscopes & Lenclair

Obviously we don't know Jack (or jack, as you've no doubt noticed), but we think he's on the left in the first two pics and in the middle in the third.

We climbed aboard at The Blog That Celebrates Itself and had a fun couple hours' ride, following various group members to various side projects and such. We found lots of satisfying free and downloadables and also ended up buying some quite tasty pop. The various band members hail from the D.C./Alexandria, Virginia vicinity. We especially want to give props to "the Train's" bassist, Jack Hubble (or Hubbell - we saw it both ways and maybe it's two different homonymic humans, though we kind of doubt it), who has some wicked good powerpop and psychpop in his several solo projects. (We dropped his  "Kaleidoscope" into the Songdrop widget, in case you want to take a listen.) Anyway, here we go.








We like this better than the original. (No offense, Milkers.)