Maria Bertel is a fearless artist at the peak of her creative pursuit. As humble as she is virtuosic, her work is a dazzling display of how symphony can be coaxed out of cacophony. Post-Trash’s Khagan Aslanov chats with the Danish trombonist on her education, process, and introductions to unorthodox music.
Sharp Pins is the solo brainchild of Kai Slater, a stylishly lanky 20-year-old who has come to position himself as the unassuming spokesman of Chicago’s DIY indie rock scene. If Radio DDR saw Slater playing the hits, Balloon Balloon Balloon is his sandbox for weird, retrofitted experiments that see him tinkering with both fidelity and expectation.
Thanya Iyer listens closely. During a conversation earlier this year, the Montréal singer-songwriter describes the stillness she discovered while creating her third record. Post-Trash’s Aly Eleanor chats with Iyer about her beginnings, community, and the collaborative efforts on her lates record TIDE/TIED.
With Electric Hour, Sword II have full control over their resilient, variegated version of rock. They emerge into the present with a singular, science-fiction-esque, “easy to listen to uneasiness” that so subtly and succinctly captures the paranoid scrutiny of society today, while offering pathways towards collective resilience.
Makena’s new album bathes and listens finds Devin McKnight turning inward, riding the tension between the personal and the universal. Post-Trash’s Benji Heywood caught up with McKnight to discuss the making of bathes and listens, the nature of progress, and how compassion and empathy can shape the future.
