Here's a playlist based on the top tracks that featured in Up and Coming Edinburgh's #BandcampAdvent 2018 list. Some of the bands and/or tracks aren't on Soundcloud, so it doesn't quite match up completely....

1. Half Formed Things – February 
https://halfformedthings.bandcamp.com/album/february 

2. Dinosaur94 – Miss Brown
https://dinosaur94.bandcamp.com/track/miss-brown  

3. Callum Easter – Here or Nowhere
https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/album/postmap-03-04-here-or-nowhere-back-beat  

4. Lilac Melt – Lilac Melt EP
https://lilacmelt.bandcamp.com/album/lilac-melt 

5. Trampled Daisy – Evil Twin
https://trampleddaisy.bandcamp.com/track/evil-twin 

6. Shark Tale Themed Birthday Party
https://sharktalethemedbirthdayparty.bandcamp.com/album/kinky-in-winter-and-superb-uhn-tiss-uhn-tiss-uhn-tiss 

7. DMS – Unreleased EP
https://dmsscotland.bandcamp.com/album/unreleased 

8. The Black Diamond Express
https://theblackdiamondexpress.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-of-the-snake-vol-1 

9. The New Beans – Wake Up
https://thenewbeans.bandcamp.com/album/wake-up 

10. Gravelle – Liquid Skin
https://gravelleofficial.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-skin 

11. Super Inuit - Chicane/Tessellate
https://superinuit.bandcamp.com/album/chicane-tessellate 

12. Posable Action Figures
(no longer available) 

13. The Shan – Meanwhile 
https://theshan.bandcamp.com/album/meanwhile 

14. The Honey Farm – Welcome To The Honey Farm
https://thehoneyfarm.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-honey-farm 

15. The Motion Poets – A Girl Like This
https://themotionpoets.bandcamp.com/album/a-girl-like-this-single

U&C Edinburgh's #BandcampAdvent Top Single/EPs of 2018

Kinky In Winter (And Superb​!​) / Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss

Kinky In Winter (And Superb!)

The first single from Half Formed Things' forthcoming studio album "To Live in the Flicker".

www.halfformedthings.com

February

LYRICS

Enter a world that will never 
Make you want to surrender 
To all of your fears and desires
It’s breaking my heart that
Forever is not enough anymore
For you to endeavour 
To see with brand new eye
Brand new eyes

Falling Kings and Queens that never touch the ground 
Oxidise our dreams and watch them burning down, down

Breathe while we go on and on and on and on
We’re turning into stone and concrete
Breathe while we go on and on and on and on 
Your silence makes me skip a heartbeat 

What if this wasn’t your life
What if you were the third eye 
Then all of your fears and desires would break into pieces of nothing
But who am I to react?
I was born with the wrong heart
But seeing with brand new eyes
Brand new eyes - now

Breathe while we go on and on and on and on
We’re turning into stone and concrete
Breathe while we go on and on and on and on 
Your silence makes me skip a heartbeat

Our falling Kings and Queens that never touch the ground 
Oxidise our dreams and watch them burning down
Our falling Kings and Queens that never touch the ground 
Oxidise our dreams and watch them burning down, down 

Breathe while we go on and on and on and on
We’re turning into stone and concrete
Breath while we go on and on and on and on 
Your silence makes me skip a heartbeat
Your silence makes me skip a heartbeat

Oxidise

Miss Brown

Wake Up

Released on postcard / digital on Friday 16th November 2018: https://www.lostmap.com/postcards/postmap-304

Introducing … Callum Easter, an Edinburgh based singer of otherworldly rhythm and blues. His debut PostMap postcard double A-side single ‘Here or Nowhere’ / ‘Back Beat’ will be released on November 16, 2018, and offers a taste of his extraordinary debut album Here or Nowhere, which will follow in the spring of 2019. 

The first two tracks featured on his debut Lost Map single showcase two distinctive sides of his craft. ‘Here or Nowhere’ is a sparse and captivating torch song built from electronic bass drones and shivering organ, Easter’s vocals shrouded in cavernous echo, while ‘Back Beat’ is a haunting, skeletal blues experiment set to little more than the hypnotic single-string thrum of a guitar. The postcard also includes a live version of ‘Feelings Gone’ - a track from one of Easter’s earlier self-released mini-albums, previously recorded with electric organ and drum machine, now reimagined with accordion and vocal.

Callum Easter - 'Here Or Nowhere'

After hitting the studio and recording a debut album in 2010, The New Beans appeared in various international magazines, blogs and radio stations (USA, UK, Sweden, France) before the release of their self-titled debut. In the weeks that followed, it became one of the top albums on Napster, appearing next to acts such as The Killers, Florence + The Machine and Phoenix . The music was also featured on the popular discovery app 'Band Of The Day' and the track Soundtrack of the New Age was featured in the season finale of the Amazon original series 'Betas'. 
The UK-based music project has toured Buenos Aires, Berlin and Edinburgh’s most prominent clubs and their new single 'Berlin' is set to be released on March 2, 2021.