NEWS:
As of late, claire rousay and more eaze (Mari Maurice) have made some of the most creatively intriguing, weirdly catchy, strangely hypnotic, and wildly avant-garde electronic and ambient music. Post-Trash chatted through Zoom with more eaze about no floor, the creative process, and her friendship with claire rousay.
Benediction presents some of the best reissues and new releases featured on the show from each month. These days: mostly leftfield pop, experimental electronics, and archival finds, with the odd jungle or footwork set.
In the grand tradition of Liars, Pere Ubu, among many other messed-up geniuses, What Is Success is a relentless slog of a record (complimentary) that drills into the listener with an unrepentant, slippery cacophony (still complimentary) and just the right amount of melody and groove as counterbalance underneath.
The Unfit are not here to play games. The PNW quartet have a knack for punching the listener in the face with blaring guitars, pounding kick drums, and vocalist Jake Knuth’s full, spitting ferocity. Disconnected is their first full-length release, a collection of early EPs spanning from 2020 to present.
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.
Cameron Winter, frontman of the New York rock band Geese, has made his solo debut as solo as possible. The songs on Heavy Metal grope around in the dark for sources of meaning, although the strongest sources are the easiest to find: love, God, and money.
What comes next for Deady is anyone’s guess, but we’ll find out soon enough as the band are getting ready to release 2 Dead 2 Furious in June. Continuing to stretch their amorphous punk core, “Hot Damn” finds itself rooted in anthemic hardcore.
Birthmarks is the sort of beast that slithers rather than stalks. Where Bambara’s previous efforts have been marked by distinct country air—backroads, out-of-town pit stops, decaying towns—Birthmarks is an album of people, of unreliable narrators and recurring failures.
The point is that Universe Room has something for any GBV fan. It shows that the band is exactly where they want to be: not repeating themselves but never losing touch with what makes them Guided by Voices. This is a band that does its own thing on its own terms, never caring what anyone else is doing, and Universe Room is the perfect showcase of that.
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.
On their spellbinding self-titled LP, Cryogeyser delicately straddles genre nuance while exploring universal themes of personal and collective metamorphosis. Their profound technical and cultural understanding of the music they make proves they know their shit without being dogmatic.
On Big Ugly, released by artist-run Dear Life Records, Fust preserves the nuanced grittiness of Southern life while challenging dominant narratives. Post-Trash caught up with Fust lead Aaron Dowdy to discuss evolving Southern identity, adding nuance to existing musical themes, and jamming with your friends.
Under the band name on their Bandcamp the tagline reads, “Party Music For Gay Angry Sluts.” Lambrini Girls’ debut album, Who Let the Dogs Out, echoes that tagline, and establishes their unique identity as they weave oodles of anger, vulnerability, and satire altogether.
The quartet of Sonam (Drill, Ursula), Pier (Privacy Issues), Kat (Amanda X, Clasp) and Juliette (Corey Flood), bring together so much of what makes Philadelphia’s DIY punk scene great, their music is scrappy and inventive, melodic yet raw, remarkably irreverent and socially conscious.
PFFU are incredibly good at noise pop earworms. The New York group crafted their debut album, ghostass, for two and a half years while scarcely offering short singles that are more ambient and bedroom pop than shoegaze.
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.
On Shafted By The Algorithm, Ghoulies offer a declaration of dissatisfaction with a world of digitally mechanized forces telling us how to feel, what to do, what to consume, and how to be. The album is a sonic slap in the face to all passive, inoffensive algorithmically pleasing wallpaper sounds.
Prostitute rage, screech, and tear through track after track of industrial indebted noise rock with not just ferocity but also exasperation. Each hit of the drums and slash of the guitar sounds as if it’s the band's last. Even as the album ends, the band desperately ask the listener to see the horrors before them through the raw desperation bleeding out of each note they play.
For Freckle—the new collaborative project between garage rock pioneer Ty Segall and Color Green guitarist Corey Madden—their self-titled debut is a means for experimentation while embracing their musical roots. Freckle is playful, coated with a lively texture of traditional rock melodies and bohemian percussion—a meeting place where both Segall’s recent instrumental endeavors and Madden’s breezy psych-folk are generously kissed by the Californian sun.
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.
Offers is composed in its pits, peaks, straightaways, and detours. Largely improvised, the record finds Jason Koth and Miles Allen (Hiver) leaning into discovery while balancing slow-burn art-pop with plenty of breathing room.
Over the past few years, Porridge Radio have become one of the most exciting bands, consistently putting out excellent records. They recently announced their break up and a new EP, The Machine Starts To Sing, which is out today. The EP acts as a continuation (or a sequel) to Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me and is undoubtedly just as fantastic.
Tweez goes in numerous directions: at times serious, at times ridiculous, and at times incoherent. In his liner notes, Ethan Buckler aptly summarizes, “But what was Slint? Half hardcore and half something else.” The hardcore keeps you listening while the something else leaves you wanting more.
On her new EP, CIAO MALZ spills her thoughts of what’s been eating at her mind, lamenting the stories surrounding certain characters. Around many of these characters, there’s a sense of leaving and that longing sensation, a feeling which sits, charring a hole in her conscious.
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.
Red Ribbon is an extremely personal album that lacks reluctance with expressing the undertones of the complex feelings within dark romance, sex, and self liberation. Ambient keys, seductive vocals, and jazzy notes surround and compliment Emma’s sharp words expressing the permanence of her actions provoked by heartbreak and a slow escape from delirium.
Federico Stock’s “Paper Plate” is a meditation on the world’s fragility, a world where something as steady as the moon can be ripped up like a paper plate. In spite of this, the song is immovable, anchored by a warm, fingerpicked guitar that doesn’t let up until the song’s final seconds.
There’s a careful balance between Cor de Lux’s distortion and melody, wonky textures and glistening immediacy, captured with great effect on the band’s new single “Long Face People,” an expansive song that pierces and surges through locked-in grooves.
Phonetics On and On is a departure from the Horsegirl of 2022—the band has reduced its scale, forming a sound that’s intentionally stripped down. Experimenting with a “less is more” mindset, there’s so much they can accomplish with so much less.
The Bristol-via-Brighton band’s third full length explores nine stories of evil. It arrives amid persistent climate disaster, global conflict, and nuclear posturing that has the Doomsday Clock mere seconds from midnight. It’s also a surreal masterpiece by a band coming into their own.
POST-TRASH PLAYLIST:
NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:
March 19:
- Previous Industries - Evergreen Plaza
March 20:
- Child Bite - Smog & Viscera
- Nyxy Nyx - Play Dead
- Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 5
March 21:
- Alpha Hopper - Let Heaven and Nature Sing II
- Bad Breeding - Blood Manifest
- Che Noir & Superior - Seeds in Babylon
- Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal
- Cross Record - Crush Me
- Dumbells - Up Late With
- Ed Kuepper & Jim White - After The Flood
- EGGY - From Time To Time
- Eliza Niemi - Progress Bakery
- Exploding Flowers - Watermelon/Peacock
- The Folk Implosion - Dare to Be Surprised (reissue)
- Gates To Hell - Death Comes To All
- Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
- Macie Stewart - When the Distance is Blue
- More Eaze & Claire Rousay - No Floor
- Motorbike - Kick It Over
- Pictoria Vark - Nothing Sticks
- PremRock - Did You Enjoy Your Time Here…?
- Private Lives - Salt of the Earth
- Ritchot Textiles - II
- Sensor Ghost - Irritation on Demand
- Sharp Pins - Radio DDR (Deluxe)
- SpiritWorld - Helldorado
- YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds
- Young Widows - Power Sucker
March 22:
- Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 6
March 28:
- Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
- Decrepisy - Deific Mourning
- Doomsday - Never Known Peace
- Gloin - All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
- Mess Esque - Jay Marie, Comfort Me
- Pond 1000 - daffodiL
- Population II - Maintenant Jamais
- Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life
- Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing
- Willie The Kid & Real Bad Man - Midnight