It's the penultimate Bandcamp Friday of 2025, so it's time to support some independent music artists! Here's what I got this AM:

First, the Erebus EP from dark/doom/goth/post-metal band Remina

Erebus (EP), by REMINA

Erebus (EP) by REMINA, released 21 June 2024 1. Erebus 2. Cinderfall 3. Siren's Sleep While writing our upcoming album we ended up with three songs that no longer fit the album's direction as it began to take shape. Rather than let these songs become lost in the ether, we gathered them here in their own collection. So we present our first EP, Erebus, consisting of two songs (Erebus and Cinderfall) from the writing sessions of our second album and one song (Siren's Sleep) written early in 2023 featuring our friends Emilio Crespo from Sojourner as guest vocalist and Renan Bianchi from HellLight as guest drummer. Purchasing from this page supports us directly, but physical copies are available through our label's store: www.sound-cave.com/en/shop

REMINA (remina.bandcamp.com)

Second, some shoegaze from Chicago's Muted Colors

take i lovely you, by Muted Color

take i lovely you by Muted Color, released 05 July 2024 1. nowhere i am 2. you looked happy 3. where it lies 4. sudden change 5. plum 6. acid rain 7. kintsugi nth 8. bruise "take i lovely you" LP available now via Fever Ltd.

Muted Color (mutedcolorband.bandcamp.com)

Third, the first EP from the hardcore/post-hardcore band Scowl

Reality After Reality..., by Scowl

Reality After Reality... by Scowl, released 30 November 2019 1. Retail Hell 2. Petty Selfish Cretin 3. Reality After Reality... 4. My Turn 2 Play 5. Choke

Scowl (scowl831.bandcamp.com)

Fourth, a new LP from UK singer-songwriter herbal tea

Hear as the Mirror Echoes, by herbal tea

Hear as the Mirror Echoes by herbal tea, released 29 August 2025 1. Seventeen 2. Grounded 3. Kitchen Floor (4 A.M.) 4. Submarine 5. Driving Slow 6. Garden 7. Frank 8. Sundown 9. Kara British artist herbal tea's debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes drifts in and out like a half-remembered dream. Shaped slowly by songwriter/producer Helena Walker from late-night demos that gradually bloomed into expansive arrangements. Drawing on dream pop, ambient folk, and lo-fi production, and citing influences from Sparklehorse to Sharon Van Etten, there's an otherworldly quality in the way it softly reimagines the familiar. From the ethereal slowcore of "Seventeen" to the 70s folk-inspired "Driving Slow", each track belongs to its own distinct world. The songs swell with ambient textures and bursts of distortion, building into cinematic crescendos before folding back into quiet moments of sparse piano and lo-fi dissonance. Helena's vocals, often recorded at the time of writing, are ghostly with an undercurrent of gravity, submerged within layers of rich harmonies. Themes of impermanence, dissociation, and emotional transience run throughout, with lyrics lifted from dreams, old diaries, and moments of stream-of-consciousness. Co-produced with longtime collaborator and childhood friend Henry C Sharpe, the record was mixed and mastered entirely DIY in makeshift setups in living rooms and bedrooms, though a few details were finalised in the basement studio of Bristol’s The Louisiana with entrusted friend Jonny Allan (of Happyness). Over time, herbal tea’s music has spread quietly, passed between artists and listeners without much promotion. She has been invited to open for musicians she deeply admires, including Gia Margaret and Elena Tonra, and her music continues to find an audience through word-of-mouth, admired for its emotional weight and rare sense of atmosphere. “I’ve always felt like a bit of an outsider, and making music is my escape.” Helena says. “I hope this album can be that escape for someone else.”

herbal tea (herbaltea.bandcamp.com)

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It's the penultimate Bandcamp Friday of 2025, so it's time to support some independent music artists! Here's what I got this AM:

First, the Erebus EP from dark/doom/goth/post-metal band Remina

Erebus (EP), by REMINA

Erebus (EP) by REMINA, released 21 June 2024 1. Erebus 2. Cinderfall 3. Siren's Sleep While writing our upcoming album we ended up with three songs that no longer fit the album's direction as it began to take shape. Rather than let these songs become lost in the ether, we gathered them here in their own collection. So we present our first EP, Erebus, consisting of two songs (Erebus and Cinderfall) from the writing sessions of our second album and one song (Siren's Sleep) written early in 2023 featuring our friends Emilio Crespo from Sojourner as guest vocalist and Renan Bianchi from HellLight as guest drummer. Purchasing from this page supports us directly, but physical copies are available through our label's store: www.sound-cave.com/en/shop

REMINA (remina.bandcamp.com)

Second, some shoegaze from Chicago's Muted Colors

take i lovely you, by Muted Color

take i lovely you by Muted Color, released 05 July 2024 1. nowhere i am 2. you looked happy 3. where it lies 4. sudden change 5. plum 6. acid rain 7. kintsugi nth 8. bruise "take i lovely you" LP available now via Fever Ltd.

Muted Color (mutedcolorband.bandcamp.com)

Third, the first EP from the hardcore/post-hardcore band Scowl

Reality After Reality..., by Scowl

Reality After Reality... by Scowl, released 30 November 2019 1. Retail Hell 2. Petty Selfish Cretin 3. Reality After Reality... 4. My Turn 2 Play 5. Choke

Scowl (scowl831.bandcamp.com)

Fourth, a new LP from UK singer-songwriter herbal tea

Hear as the Mirror Echoes, by herbal tea

Hear as the Mirror Echoes by herbal tea, released 29 August 2025 1. Seventeen 2. Grounded 3. Kitchen Floor (4 A.M.) 4. Submarine 5. Driving Slow 6. Garden 7. Frank 8. Sundown 9. Kara British artist herbal tea's debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes drifts in and out like a half-remembered dream. Shaped slowly by songwriter/producer Helena Walker from late-night demos that gradually bloomed into expansive arrangements. Drawing on dream pop, ambient folk, and lo-fi production, and citing influences from Sparklehorse to Sharon Van Etten, there's an otherworldly quality in the way it softly reimagines the familiar. From the ethereal slowcore of "Seventeen" to the 70s folk-inspired "Driving Slow", each track belongs to its own distinct world. The songs swell with ambient textures and bursts of distortion, building into cinematic crescendos before folding back into quiet moments of sparse piano and lo-fi dissonance. Helena's vocals, often recorded at the time of writing, are ghostly with an undercurrent of gravity, submerged within layers of rich harmonies. Themes of impermanence, dissociation, and emotional transience run throughout, with lyrics lifted from dreams, old diaries, and moments of stream-of-consciousness. Co-produced with longtime collaborator and childhood friend Henry C Sharpe, the record was mixed and mastered entirely DIY in makeshift setups in living rooms and bedrooms, though a few details were finalised in the basement studio of Bristol’s The Louisiana with entrusted friend Jonny Allan (of Happyness). Over time, herbal tea’s music has spread quietly, passed between artists and listeners without much promotion. She has been invited to open for musicians she deeply admires, including Gia Margaret and Elena Tonra, and her music continues to find an audience through word-of-mouth, admired for its emotional weight and rare sense of atmosphere. “I’ve always felt like a bit of an outsider, and making music is my escape.” Helena says. “I hope this album can be that escape for someone else.”

herbal tea (herbaltea.bandcamp.com)

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@Tim_Eagon Remina is good. Heike Langhans for the win!

@thorsten I got introduced to Remina last week via the Eclecticism YT channel.

@Tim_Eagon Do you know her former band Draconian?

I also was going to buy the newest LP from the Portland band Spoon Benders, but then I realized that I could get the physical CD, including shipping, directly from the band for cheaper than the digital album, and I always go for physical if possible! Anyways, here's the link to their BandCamp:

How Things Repeat, by Spoon Benders

How Things Repeat by Spoon Benders, released 12 May 2023 1. Dichotomatic 2. RM. 157 3. Mars 4. Rival 5. Cut Behind 6. Strychnine 7. Future's Few 8. Edison's Medicine

Spoon Benders (spoonbenders.bandcamp.com)

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