If sentence structure in the country focused on letting more eaze’s pop framework stretch apart by others, valley and structure goes in a different direction. She presents her most classically tinged tunes to date, focusing a lot of the melodies towards ostinato, a brief melodic phrase that gets repeated over and over.
Maine-based Dead Gowns recently released their latest album, Vegas, a record about remembering and making sense of distance through the lens of grief and isolation. Post-Trash’s Esin Nisan Yildirim spoke with Geneviève Beaudoin about how the record comes full circle and processing everything it carries.
Mass Text is set to release their debut album, Perfect New Knife, on January 29th via Solid Brass Records, an expansive record that moves at its own dynamic pace. “Pink Slips” can hardly be described as quiet, but there is a minimalist aura, creeping through the dissonance rather than outright swarming in it.
Deerhoof remains unabashedly progressive, ambitious, exciting, and, most importantly, weird. Divine Schism is the group’s first fully self-released album, and in the wake of last year’s decision to pull all of their music from Spotify, another step in their conscious move away from the Music Industry (whatever that is).
Yoni Wolf is always longing for something that’s out of reach, and he continues that on his latest release, Oh Golly / Yes Lord. The ninth WHY? album heads in a significantly more electronic direction with the Cincinnati native pouring out his familiar brand of neurotic negativity before arriving at gratitude.
After a solid foundation of singles and EPs going back to 2023, Starcleaner Reunion have outdone themselves with their luminous debut LP, Umbrella. Their indie-pop/motorik infusion balances retro-futuristic nostalgia with Euro-chamber pop arrangements, summoning the likes of Stereolab and Broadcast.
When he’s not rocking in the alt-country band Friendship, Peter Gill is the primary songwriting force of power-pop rock unit 2nd Grade. On their latest, the band seemingly takes The Beach Boys’ “California Girls” and stretches it across an entire record, investigating the unending world of Girls and Boys.
