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Now, Disintegration are teaming back up with Feel It Records for a full-length album that promises more electronic post-punk with a distinctly Cleveland twist.
bedbug’s latest album, out via Disposable America, grows out of the solo project by Dylan Gamez Citron. pack your bags the sun is growing is their first full-band record. The songs are kaleidoscopic: jagged vocals and shiny guitars, and maintain the intimacy of their origins.
Directed by Jen Meller, the video accompanies the storming tenacity and aggressive attitude that pours forth from the roaring beast that is Nihiloceros. The band have been treading their path in the NYC punk/underground scene for close to a decade now and haven't lost any of their bite and hostility as the track makes patently clear.
Their latest single trades the sharp energy of their past work for a more laconic feel as The Deals dig deep into slowcore textures. “Freeway” is a patient shoegaze song, slow dripped and sweetened by Joe Suihkonen and Margaret McCarthy’s gorgeous vocal harmonies.
The Los Angeles based quartet are making death metal records the way they love them, raw, mountainous, and classic. Fragments of the Ageless, the band’s fifth album is a colossal homage to riffs… big fucking nasty riffs, riffs that shred, riffs with hooks, brilliant razor sharp riffs, riffs that decimate everything else to rubble.
With Verity Den’s record out now (via Amish Records), the band are getting ready to hit the road together, supporting Rosali, but before they do, they’ve shared “Live at Nightlight”. The live performance video captures the band playing both “Priest Boss” and “Prudence,” a pair of songs that highlight the different sides of their sound.
To play something that people often define as “straightforward” pop pock of any kind is actually not that straightforward at all. If you add certain not so straightforward elements in there, no matter how small, you have to throw in a wrench at points to make it work. That is exactly what Sheer Mag do on their third album, Playing Favorites.
During our 33-minute conversation, Matt Korvette, the 42-year-old vocalist of Pissed Jeans, says “fun” eleven times and “fan” six times. The Sub Pop mainstays out of Philadelphia dropped their sixth album, Half Divorced, and Korvette has it on repeat. Approaching two decades as a band, Pissed Jeans are writing great songs that they enjoy jamming out to.
5am is the latest EP from Caution's Nora Button under the guise of Despondent, delivering another heavy blow in her clouded and confessional songwriting. More stripped down, these recordings consist of herself and infrequent drums and percussion by Jaxon Vesely, heightening the intimacy of Button's tales of disconnect and longing.
Harm’s Way picks up where they left off and has improved their formula tremendously. In just 27 quick minutes, they create earworm after earworm, the kind of songs you can listen to over and over with a big smile on your face. The record is the perfect accompaniment for a bright spring day when the sun is shining and all is right in the world.
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 each of their EP’s, Brazil’s Lasso have operated with the kind of focus that shows a mastery over the genre, but more than that, a fondness for the tools they’ve chosen to express their discontent. Ordem Imaginada tightens up the d-beat indebted hardcore that they’ve been refining over their last couple of releases, avoiding all flash..
Tomato Flower squish together on a couch, where they fill in each other’s sentences and pass the proverbial mic to the next member with ease, only pausing to burst into laughter. Each answer unfurls into a tangent that pulls back the curtain on their ambitious songwriting process and desire to see their best friends succeed individually and together.
The Foreign Department is Rhys Edwards’ (of Ulrika Spacek) follow up to 2022’s impressive Flickering I, released under the name Astrel K. Under this moniker, Edwards’ pop sensibility is more transparently laid bare. There’s equal parts hooks, sweet melancholy, and beautiful song arrangements throughout the album.
Nottingham’s whistling whirlwind of chaos, Bloody Head, make themselves heard loud and (mostly) clear with their seventh release, Perpetual Eden. The album extends to the listener a deep dive into the contemporary human condition in a way unique to the band – through cleansing noise, harsh epiphanies, and beautifully messy lyricism.
There’s a significant mood shift on Life on the Lawn; A Country Western sound clean. As the shoegaze bubble continues to expand and mutate, the band embrace a more textbook indie rock style and “The Dreamer” is Life on the Lawn’s leading example.
It’s been nearly five months since their last album, so naturally the Mason City based quartet are getting ready to release a new album, Serenading Unwanted Ballads, due out March 22nd via Feel It Records. Their latest is primarily split between balls-to-wall grooves and reverberating romanticism, but the record acts as a sonic grab bag of ideas.
The sophomore album of this New York art punk is a sensory amalgamation of haunting memories and chromatic films, gift wrapped in angelic gauze. With allusions to Deerhoof’s eclectic instrumentation, the groove is grafted onto Jeff Buckley’s sweeping romanticism, then filtered through ambient progressive rock.
Across its eight tracks, the Bristol avant-garde outfit led by Jack Ogborne as the titular Bingo Fury has marked out their most distinctive sonic vision yet, a contemplative vocal-jazz noir marked out by glimmers of post-minimalism and sharp stabs of no-wave extremism.
While it’s been a couple years since their last record, Wallplant, now a full band, are out there doing their thing, creating bent lo-fi post-punk and power-pop that feels animated, alien, and incessant. The recently filmed Live at Jamdek session captures the band in the studio, working through songs old and new.
“Bare Minimum” is a loud, somber track with introspective lyrics highlighting the moment you knew you could and should be better. Self-awareness is the central thread that lingers throughout the song with lines like, “I look for loops of applause for doing the bare minimum” and “giving myself the space to pity the person I helped myself become.”
Verity Den, like most of the current artists working in the indie rock mode have their inspirations that range from the best of shoegaze and dream-pop, spiced with a good dose of Yo La Tengo. Yet, what is not so often the case, the trio have re-modeled and re-shaped their inspirations into a defined, individual sound.
Last year's 馬 (Uma) may seem smaller-scale with its runtime just under half an hour compared to its predecessor's near-hour, but it's in this smaller scale that Betcover!! has managed to build its tightest work yet. They’re a band that feels slightly out of time, the mix of modern techniques with old school blues at once new yet classic.
Australia's own Split System have presented their latest album, Vol. 2, as a kind of musical counteragent. By first questioning if our "demands of punk are a little too high... [or] a little too exacting," not to mention talk of primal itches that need scratching, they’ve positioned themselves as a hard-hitting salve for needless wanderlust.
Pissed Jeans has lived through their career by giving listeners a dose of middle-class realism, and on Half Divorced, their first record in almost seven years; they refine a high-octane message into a translatable mantra that's as catchy as it is a wake-up call.
The Wisconsin based trio - comprised of Bobby Hussy, Tyler Spatz, and Hart Alan Miller - are no strangers to the world of DIY punk, but with their latest project they’re blurring the lines and creating their own boundaries, taking equal parts sinewy post-punk and corrosive artistic grunge, and then flipping it all on its head.
At long last, the Club has released new music, Infants Under the Bulb, a record that does what all great records by great bands do: overdelivers on some expectations and completely thwarts others. Make no mistake: the Uranium Club is back, and they’ve outdone themselves.
If the world feels especially cruel, Mary Timony is the last to know. Speaking to Post-Trash from her home on the eve of Untame the Tiger’s release, the singer and guitar virtuoso sounds carefree and positive. This juxtaposition between heavy circumstance and her unsinkable attitude reflects what Untame the Tiger does so well.
Marisa Dabice said I Got Heaven is about unleashing the animal inside of her, about a kind of freedom we aren't allowed. It is that feral eeriness that defines this album and what gives it a distinct sound from previous Mannequin Pussy records. The ten songs feel like crawling through mud, sprinting through tall grass, seeing your hot breath.
DRILL return with Permanent, their first (and unfortunately last) full length, but they’re not going quietly into the good night. Animated and agitated, the trio - Sonam Parikh (vocals, keys), Gavin Perez-Canto (drums), and Nina Ryser (bass, vocals), continue to craft songs with a charming sort of irreverence, creating post-punk as minimal as it is vibrant.
POST-TRASH PLAYLIST:
NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:
March 13:
- Beige Banquet - Ornamental Hermit
March 15:
- Bedbug - Pack Your Bags The Sun Is Growing
- Chuck Strangers - A Forsaken Lover's Plea
- Cusp - Thanks So Much
- Dancer - 10 Songs I Hate About You
- Earth Flower - Earth Flower
- Elcamino & Real Bad Man - The Game Is The Game
- Gouge Away - Deep Sage
- JJ And The A's - Eyeballer
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
- Pleasants - Rocanrol In Mono
- Shock Withdrawal - The Dismal Advance
- Sparkle Division - Jupiter Lounge
- Stress Angel - Punished by Nemesis
- Tosser - Sheer Humanity
March 20:
- Daisy Rickman - Howl
March 22:
- Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
- Apparition - Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State
- Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - Four Guitars Live
- Butthole Surfers - PCPPEP (reissue)
- Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac (reissue)
- Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse (reissue)
- The Celebrities - Redd Karpet
- Civerous - Maze Envy
- DAR - A Slightly Larger Head
- Deaf Club & The HIRS Collective / Fuck Money - Deaf Club feat. HIRS Collective / Fuck Money split EP
- Guided By Voices - Same Place The Fly Got Smashed (reissue)
- Itchy & The Nits - Worst Of
- The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
- JUG - Or Not
- Liars - Mess (reissue)
- Lysol - Down The Street
- Marbled Eye - Read The Air
- Odetta Hartman - Swansongs
- Outer World - Who Does The Music Love?
- Rosali - Bite Down
- Sam Evian - Plunge
- USA Nails - Feel Worse
- Why Bother? - Serenading Unwanted Ballads