NEWS:
Today, Post-Trash is thrilled to premiere Why Bother?’s “Indoctrination.” On their latest, the Mason City punk outfit offer answers in the mystery and mystery in the answers. Cling to reality and take back your very own astral projection with Why Bother?
This reissue is a fascinating documentation of the early years of Screaming Trees, showing a ferocity and menace the band would later perfect. The new unreleased tracks are a treasure trove, as some truly eclipse those that made it on the original album.
In their fourth decade of recording, Deftones are still able to sit together and put something like Private Music to tape, something so full of cinematic abandon and violent verve, coarse and beautiful, and as always, at odds with itself in all the right ways.
James K’s Friend beautifully achieves a repurposing and rebuilding of the past through new machinery. But instead of merely recreating the affect of these sounds, K has built something new out of them.
Rather than simply recreating a classic sound, Jeanines reshape it into miniature bursts of indie pop – ranging from 1:10 to 2:15 minutes – that each carve out their own character, colored by melancholy lyrics.
Today, Post-Trash is thrilled to premiere “Lowballer,” from Somerville-based band Otis Shanty. “Lowballer” hides its dissolution behind its sound, but to Otis Shanty, it’s about “selling dreams in a buyer’s market.”
Paddy Reagan and co. have emerged from their years-long brooding with a new batch of slacker, country-tinged rock songs that feels like a lively, warm summer night. I’m Sad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Fake It Anymore might be the most appropriately titled record to come in the year 2025.
The Edinburgh/Glasgow-based project has teamed up with Upset the Rhythm for an album that is less new wave and more rocking than last year’s model, yet still with the same levels of zaniness. This record is an all-you-can-hear feast of frizzled and frazzled erratic guitar-based slacker rock madness.
With this record, Mclusky suggest that writing songs isn’t about inventing a narrative but writing the best songs possible. The World Is Still Here and So Are We is a monument to constant process, outdoing others because you’re trying to out do yourself, but also a document of a fully locked in Mclusky – no second guessing, eager to jump the gun, and too good to miss.
Even though Guck’s music may be ugly, it’s also undeniable. Forgoing the sludge and oppressive misery of the recent noise rock revival, Guck have crafted a flaming slab of mania, an album that may dance with the rhythms of a broken police siren and screams like a doomsday preacher.
Post-Trash’s Rohan Press chats with Chicago-based songwriter Case Oats about growth and self discovery, missing friends, and her Merge Records debut Last Missouri Exit.
Throughout their self-titled debut, Razorface seems determined to push through with a divisive hole in somebody’s coffin. The flavor of this record is violence, whether it’s pushed outward or in the direction of oneself.
Earlier this year Nape Neck released a self-titled collection, pairing together both their first full length and the Look Alive EP. It’s a wonderful place to start for anyone looking for a good rattling, and thankfully, they’re back for more with new album The Shallowest End, due out on September 19th.
Post-Trash’s John Glab covers Washer and Ovlov’s blistering, highly anticipated San Francisco sets on Ovlov’s first West Coast tour.
Post Trash’s Giliann Karon chats with Samira Winter about perpetual tour, inspiration in collaboration, and Adult Romantix, her fifth album as Winter and first on new label home Winspear.
On a second album of bedroom hypnagogia, Nourished by Time’s Marcus Brown channels the occult and the psychedelic for his most expansive, ambitious undertaking yet in the form of The Passionate Ones.
Jobber to the Stars tops the New York band’s very impressive entrance that was the Hell In a Cell EP, as they show off their deep repertoire of moves that will have you gasping for air. Jobber have assembled a record that is fresh and memorable, full of energy and passion that can’t help but burst out of the speakers.
A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.
Bay Area band Slake have carved out a wry sub-sub-subgenre called "lesbian doom folk.” Their debut Let’s Get Married is a controlled experiment. Marriage is often fleeting, but records like this diamond are forever. Slake’s Let’s Get Married firmly belongs in the latter category.
RNIE is Lamont Brown, a Philly-based artist and music maker. His sophomore LP FULL NEPTUNE is inspired by all things late night Y2K — PS2, Toonami, and a healthy dose of breakbeat. Today, Post-Trash is excited to premiere the video for “20K,” which Brown directed himself.
Of the many guises that Yo La Tengo have acquired over the course of their four-decade-plus career, their occasional role as soundtrack composers has been a natural assignment. Like the film, Old Joy is a stripped down, minimalist affair. Most importantly, it moves the narrative along in a way that images alone cannot do.
Post-Trash’s Kurt Orzeck chats with Chicago’s Stress Positions about the band’s beginnings, their motivations, and their excellent new EP Human Zoo.
Time Thief is the new project from Zoe Wyner (halfsour) and James Walsh (Dump Him) out of Providence, RI and we are proud to premiere the video for their latest single “A Brief History of Ordinary Let Downs” off their upcoming self titled debut EP
Five years after the release of their self-titled LP, Teethe return with an expansively contained followup of profoundly melancholic southern slowcore. Magic of the Sale is a fleeting feeling that you can only hope to hang onto.
Understanding’s Shmutz-directed video for “Flesh is Word” captures the Toronto four-piece in reflections, on a jungle gym, and along the shore. It’s an easy, breezy, keys-forward number, and the lead single from the band’s forthcoming debut the joy of living.
Bleary Eyed’s third full-length album, Easy, is here. Released July 25th on Born Losers Records, the band has pulled the sound of shoegaze even closer. Easy dawns a broad range of intergalactic sounds, bending, stretching, and exploring the proverbial space dust of the far-reaching universe.
A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.
Post Trash is excited to premiere a new cut from Allston based “Farm Emo” band Tiberius. The project is back with their second single “Felt” from their upcoming album Troubadour, a thrilling cross section of emo=gaze and alt-country.
The Japanese psych-rock act Les Rallizes Dénudés is a cult band for which there is much to discuss, albeit with little verifiable information to go by. YaneUra Sept. '80 is a four song EP lasting just over 40 minutes that distills the improvisational essence of the band. It is a perfect entry point for new listeners.
“Spectres” is the record’s fouth single, a song aimed for spooky season, at least in terms of how we wrestle with the events of our past and the trauma that can linger. Street Eaters dig into their post-hardcore influences, pushing and pulling in all directions like a ghost with sifting through a colander.
POST-TRASH PLAYLIST:
NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:
September 05:
- Acid Casualties - Flags Are False
- Algae Dust - Rearranging
- Big Thief - Double Infinity
- Castleumbra - Nammu Tammtu (reissue)
- Cool Whip - Flame in My Heart
- Erosion - Invasive Species
- The Fall - Seminal Live (reissue)
- Fan Club - Stimulation
- Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves
- No Peeling - No Peeling
- Octave Museum - Between the Intervals: Octave Museum Rarities
- Octave Museum - Live at Pianos, 2005
- Octave Museum - Live at The Middle East, 2007
- Octave Museum - Live on WMBR, 2005
- Orcutt Shelley Miller - Orcutt Shelley Miller
- Ritual Mass - Cascading Misery
- Sweet Williams - Unlike Jewels
- Syko Friend - Dizzy Magic
- Titanic - Hagen
- Urban Sprawl - Blood Pact
- Water Damage - Live At Le Guess Who?
September 09:
- Julia, Julia - Sugaring A Strawberry
September 12:
- $500 - Twelve Eyes
- BRNDA - Total Pain
- Dancer - More Or Less
- David Bowie - I Can’t Give Everything Away 2002-2016 (box set)
- Guerilla Toss - You're Weird Now
- Ice Cube - Man Up
- Nyxy Nyx - Cult Classics Vol. I
- Swell Maps - The John Peel Sessions
- Time Thief - Time Thief
- Yoo Doo Right, Population II & Nolan Potter - Yoo II avec Nolan Potteruess Who?*