2015 Goldrush Companion Cassette

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]