FRANCE CAMP
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"Garage rock can be excruciatingly boring. It's always the same chords, the same swung beats, and the same skinny dude in Vans running through a reverb pedal. That said, there are sparks of genius in the garage rock genre—Black Lips and Thee Oh Sees both maintain Americana wild west spirit alive in the garage rock genre, which is otherwise basically just bad pop music with body odor and tattoos. France Camp follows in the lineage of Black Lips. They don't need to reinvent the wheel, but they're good at playing with established tropes in smart ways." - VICE
"A really sunny bit of psychedelic pop is coming from Minneapolis’ France Camp. “Marisha,” the first single off their upcoming album Purge, surfs forward through old time rock n’ roll riffs and blues-tinged vocals, bursting at the seams with a casually cool warmth. Sticking to high quality basics, the chorus churns on a longing repetition of the sweet girl’s name in a slightly hazy, infectious take on psychedelic pop." - The Wild Honey Pie
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Departing from the sunny, surf-kissed melodies of their self-titled debut EP, Purge follows France Camp into darker, heavier territory, mixing elements of hard psychedellica with pulverizing stoner metal riffs, crafting a far nastier concoction in the process. The record's title quickly became an apt metaphor for the band's creative headspace, wrestling with their own personal and musical demons and using the album as a release from the swirling negativity they were experiencing. - Zach McCormick, City Pages
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City Pages named this compilation "The Best Local Compilation of 2015." 11 Minneapolis bands, 11 unreleased songs. This is the greatest compilation of all-time. No hyperbole.
"Twin Cities label Forged Artifacts' cassette-only compilation, The Greatest of All-Time #1, is a terrific primer on the current crop of underground excellence. This is punk bliss, from garage rockers France Camp's spastic burst of "No Love" to Rupert Angeleyes's psychedelic fuzz on "One Bong Rip From Heaven," and the rest of the way through. With jams from Frankie Teardrop, Tree Blood, Kitten Forever, Teenage Moods, Some Pulp, and others, this is undisputed proof that the venerable Twin Cities rock scene is currently kicking and screaming." - City Pages, 2015
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Debut album from Minneapolis' favorite psydeclic punks.
CS edition of 100