Friday, 1 May 2026

Randcamp: Mayday

Searching Bandcamp for "Mayday" again throws up quite a lot of electronica and techno, most of which I swerved in researching this. But here are three other tracks for your spring festival. I trust you gathered greenery and wildflowers last night, to bring in the May?

Wires & Lights are a Berlin-based four-piece who, I'm willing to bet, listened to a fair amount of Joy Division in their formative years.

I think this is a first for me, featuring an artist from Argentina. Ozimov hail from Buenos Aires, which hasn't stopped them evincing the sounds of peak 80s Jean Michel Jarre on their Mayday.

Off to Toronto next, where High wobble on the tightrope between late 90s indie guitars and distressing soft-rock ballsackery, before falling off on the wrong side. In my view.

Three Randcamp choices for your 1st of May. Which, if any, might you still recall by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend?

6 comments:

  1. Possibly #1, definitely not #3

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  2. Yep, #1 by a long chalk, #2 is okay thought ZI wouldn’t want to listen to a whole album’s worth in one go.

    #3 a bit Pearl Jam for me. I will give them a point for naming another song
    JC And Me (This Ain’t About You, Jesus)

    … only in the hope that, if it ain’t about Jesus, it must be that they’re big fans of The Vinyl Villain and wrote it in tribute to JC!

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