Awkwardcore Records release digital comp with Deerhoof, The Music Tapes, and 19 other bands you can pretend to have heard of

Awkwardcore Records release digital comp with Deerhoof, The Music Tapes, and 19 other bands you can pretend to have heard of

We’ve heard our fair share of -cores in the last 30 years, especially with prefixes that run the gamut of angsty teen emotions/habits: there’s sadcore, mumblecore (movies), cutecore, queercore, etc. You may have thought that the -core genre was put to bed after the 2000s, but actually there’s a whole record label called Awkwardcore, going strong for four years now! On April 16, they digitally released their first compilation album, and we’re kind of embarrassed that we’re only reporting on it now. (It’s — well, you know the adjective I’m going for.)

Awkwardcore is a small digital-only label based in Rochester, NY, run by members of the band Fewn, and they kindly offer free album streams to those who want to listen and cheap downloads to those who want to pay. The first compilation download includes unreleased tracks from a handful of Awkwardcore bands (Fewn, Dirtman, Ganache, The Whiskers), among others like So Cow and Univox. There are also live recordings from Deerhoof and The Music Tapes, and an uncomfortably funny three minutes of the late somniloquist Dion McGregor talking in his sleep. Now, stop shuffling those big feet of yours and get it (or listen to it) here!

Awkwardcore Compilation #1 tracklisting:

01. The Captain Shafts, “Back When Phone Lines Cut the Sky”
02. Fewn, “The Hoof Destroyer”
03. Univox, “Bashful Son”
04. Dion McGregor, “Naughty Pussy”
05. Ganache, “That Old Pastoral”
06. Bogs Visionary Orchestra, “Colors”
07. Deerhoof, “Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back” (live)
08. Dirtman, “Spirit Spout”
09. Kerrin Pantelakis, “Loner”
10. Colonel Parmisan, “Centric”
11. Painted Rocks, “Sea of Quarks”
12. So Cow, “As I Roved Out (Brian)”
13. The Northwest Man, “The Means”
14. The Music Tapes, “Minister of Longitude” (live at Awkwardcore studios)
15. Seth Faergolzia, “Icky Sticky”
16. Goodbad, “Lungfish”
17. Anti-Octopus, “Rattlesnake”
18. Simon Waldram, “Girl with the Clipboard”
19. Apollo Ghosts, “Dirty Letters to Nora”
20. The Bloody Noes, “Ranchhh”
21. The Whiskers, “Birds of Paradise” (remix)

• Awkwardcore: http://awkwardcore.com

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