"Cultural Taxidermists", I like it, lol!
Yeah, the cultural noise floor is deafening these days; hard to be heard above it.
I liken releasing music these days to throwing a paper airplane off of a building and seeing how far it travels. Self-releasing on Bandcamp is, for most, akin to standing on top of a parked car at street level and throwing it as hard as you can. More often than not it will inevitably falter and crash land, the act having drawn the attention of only a few in the immediate vicinity. Occasionally though it may be caught by an updraft and land on someone's balcony!
The Skyscrapers above are inscribed with familiar logos, Geffen, Sony, EMI, etc. A few multistory indies with logos like Warp, XL, FatCat, occupy the spaces between the skyscrapers. Your plane will still travel quite far from the tops of these structures, but getting up there is harder than it's ever been due to everyone clamouring around the entrances at street level, demo in hand.