Tabs Out | 2015 Goldrush Companion Cassette

2015 Goldrush Companion Cassette

9.17.15 by Mike Haley

The 5th consecutive Goldrush Music Festival will take place this weekend, September 18th and 19th, in Denver, CO with a cast of outsider artisans including Yoni Wolf, Lawrence English, Tara Jane O'Neil, Guardian Alien, and Pictureplane. For the 4th year a cassette compilation has been put together to guide ya through the roster's diverse array of genres and talent.

This year's comp is a 22-track, 80-minute marathon kicked off with some calm, reflective experimentation by Brooklyn's Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk. The material then sways through a catalog of moods, from the shoegazey chillness of Landing to heady guitar drone from AMULETS, before Tara Jane O'Neil wraps up side A with a gorgeously gushing unreleased cut.

Side B is equally stacked. Denver locals Bang Play blitz a standout track of crazy free jazz early on that leads into a grip of lo-fi, stoked-on-Elliott-Smith pop from Austin, TX artist More Eaze. The comp (well, I guess the fest itself) is full of that sort of heavy juxtaposition. Why?'s Yoni Wolf right before a dream pop take on Lucinda Williams's "Passionate Kisses" performed by Lisa Prank (brilliant moniker btw). Straight up rock giving way to randomly dispensed oscillations. It's a smooth taste test and a killer attack on stagnation.

Eye candy for the 2015 Goldrush Companion Cassette was executed by the always great Tiny Little Hammers. You can pick up one of the 300 copies a few ways: Free with 2-day passes to the fest, for $5 at the fest, or for $7 through Planted Tapes if you can't make it out to Denver.

Side A

1. Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk - Little Village [0:00]

2. Bollywood Life - White Wall [5:39]

3. Landing - Glow [9:40]

4. Guardian Alien - female masturbation music [13:41]

5. American Culture - My Teeth are Sharp [18:03]

6. AMULETS - NIHILISM ON 1-10 [19:36]

7. Benoît Pioulard - Needless to Say [27:40]

8. Crown Larks - Pt. 4: Satrap [30:38]

9. déCollage - Friendlings [35:33]

10. Tara Jane O’Neil - Kelly [39:16]

Side B

1. Lawrence English - Coda for a Fading Tide [0:00]

2. Bang Play - Push it Slow [2:53]

3. More Eaze - Amicable Detentes [4:41]

4. braeyden jae - A Joy of Hell [7:10]

5. dugout canoe - (’-’) [11:39]

6. Yoni Wolf - Rifle Eyes [23:35]

7. Lisa Prank - Passionate Kisses [25:44]

8. Make-Overs - Post Show Hissy Fit [27:49]

9. John Chantler - A New Power [31:04]

10. Nevada Greene - A Love of Irrelevant Mind [35:20]

11. The Space Lady - Who We Are is a Key [38:18]