Solidarity Week : Indiecater
In continuing with the theme of decent folks doing good work, it’s time to turn an eye towards fledgling digital blog label Indiecater. An off-shoot of MP3Hugger, mysterious Kevin’s daily music review blog, Indicater arrived with the summer solstice of this year with the announcement of a compilation album of overlooked Irish and international tracks. At about €3.50 a pop, the digital archives contain original artwork and mp3s, user-friendly circumvention of the higher risks of releasing in physical format. Check out the bandcamp stream players.
So Indicater vol. 1 was born, featuring Belfast’s Burning Codes along with Storkboy Choons and Michael Knight. In August, Spook of the Thirteenth Lock and Mumblin’ Deaf Ro found their way into the collection of volume 2 followed shortly by the reissue of North Carolina’s RedStar Belgrade album of 1996, Where The Sun Don’t Shine.
In recent weeks we’ve seen Indiecater v.3 hit the shopping carts with goods from The Dying Seconds and Angel Pier, and two fully-Irish album reissues: Sunbear’s self-titled Nineties’ debut which looked in danger of slipping off the radar despite the band’s succesful metamorphosis into The Ruby Tailights and Youth Is Wasted On The Young, the first record by Indicater faves Michael Knight. Check out the albums listed here: each page on the Indicater site features an interview with their creators and the artwork, like this lickable cover:
