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]