Where do new bands put their music?
I've noticed that there are a load of new bands without albums and only a few songs.
I saw The Last Dinner Party at Latitude this year and I'm sure their set list was more than 2 songs according to Spotify/YouTube/website.
This goes for Lime Garden, Dead Pony, Divorce and Panic Shack just to name a few.
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A lot of those single tracks you see up on Bandcamp are the musicians trying to raise enough money to finish production on work they play live.
It's much easier to play live than it is to record. Recording is a major financial stumbling block for a lot of new musicians, on top of the time and work that takes place inside the studio. Properly mixing a track requires a fine ear, advanced technical knowledge, usually takes at least as long to complete as it did to write and record the track. This gets expensive as well - there's a reason sound production engineers generally make more than musicians.
This is why signing with a label is such a big deal for most bands - having that money up front to complete an album, as well as the label's connections with recording studios and their engineers, removes the biggest obstacle they have for getting their music out there.
Yeah, I saw a bluegrass band called The Deer Creek Sharp Shooters at a festival last year. They played a full hour+ set but only had 3 songs available online anywhere. They said their album was coming later in 2022, but ultimately didn't release it until this year. A lot of the songs they played live were on that album.