Floating Mill Records

Last Friday Bandcamp announced this best punk of 2022 list, which features Self Improvement’s Visible Damage! I was so excited and thankful that I forgot to write about it here! So cool to have our fifth release celebrated like this along with 9 other awesome 2022 albums and EPs—thanks Bandcamp & Kerry! A ton of great music on the list so please check it out!

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2022/the-best-punk-of-20

With 14 songs from 7 different releases between 1986 to 1998, Parsnips Under My Feet is now fully available! This compilation is a wide-ranging exploration of lofi rock music written and released by Pumf Records founder pStan Batcow (sometimes with other English musicians).

If you download the album, you now get a bonus track from Pumf’s first release in 1984 that Jennifer Kelly of Dusted Magazine describes as “too raw and dissonant to be much of a bonus”!!! If you haven’t already listened to the album, check it out. Some of it even sounds pretty good!

To me, this compilation shows lofi indie music at its purest state of being “inherently honest” (a phrase from pStan in the attached image) and truly independent. 38 years and going strong, Pumf continues to release music for the sake of doing so, and “if other people also appreciate it then that's an added bonus.”

For more of pStan on why Pumf's early recordings sound the way they do and the value of lofi music, please read the text in the image!