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Post-Trash's Best of 2019 | The Year In Review

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by Dan Goldin, David Haynes, Tim Crisp, Matt Keim, Tom Alexander, Matt Sigur, Patrick Pilch, Abigail Miglorie, Hugo Reyes, Sabrina Cofer, Erin Bensinger, Aly Muilenburg, B. Levinson, Sarah Knoll, and Joe Gutierrez, Mick Reed, and Evan Welsh


Another year in the books. Felt like a long one… maybe its just me. We’ve been talking about the demise of music press for what feels like forever and this year sort of felt like the nails were hammered in to the ol’ coffin. In turn, Post-Trash has never felt more alive, ready to do whatever it is we do, with grace and excitement… or maybe we just share a bunch of music we like. Either way, there’s no shortage of it and more than anything, we hope we’ve helped you to find something new to listen to and to love. As the lines of genre continue to blur, experimentation runs rampant and with it comes interesting music.

Our “Year in Review" is a comprehensive guide to our favorite releases of the year without a pre-determined length. If we loved a record, we're including it. Simple as that (unless we just plum forgot it, in which case our sincerest of apologies). It's impossible to listen to everything released in a year and everyone has different tastes, but we feel pretty great about these particular records. Your next favorite band could be out there, it's just a matter of listening to something new. Journey down this rabbit hole with us. Together, we've profiled 100+ of the releases that make Post-Trash the site that it is, with countless others recommended as "further listening," a section for releases you might have missed, and we might not have spent enough time with. We're not saying these are the best albums, but rather our favorites. Discover something new. Buy some records. Support the music you love. Thank you for reading Post-Trash and help spread the word if you like what we’re up to. - DG


J A N U A R Y :

FURTHER LISTENING:

DEERHUNTER “Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?” | GREAT DECEIVERS “In Spirit” | OROBORO “D Y A D” | TØRSÖ “Build and Break” | TROPICAL TRASH “Southern Indiana Drone Footage” | WHELPWISHER “Stale Honey”

F E B R U A R Y :

FURTHER LISTENING:

ANEURYSM “Awareness” | THE COOL GREENHOUSE “Crap Cardboard Pet” | ENDON “Boy Meets Girl”| GUIDED BY VOICES “Zeppelin Over China” | HEADROOM “New Heaven” | TUNIC “Complexion”

M A R C H :

FURTHER LISTENING:

CHEEKFACE “Therapy Island” | CHRIS COHEN “Chris Cohen” | CROWS “Silver Tongues” | DARK TEA “Dark Tea” | DJ MUGGS & MACH-HOMMY “Tuez-Les Tous” | GLAZER / SPOWDER “Split” | HAND HABITS “Placeholder” | LEGGY “Let Me Know Your Moon” | LOW LIFE “Downer Edn” | R.M.F.C. “Hive - Volumes 1 & 2”

A P R I L :

FURTHER LISTENING:

CLUB NIGHT “What Life” | THE CRADLE “The Glare of Success” | GUIDED BY VOICES “Warp and Woof” | PROTRUDERS “Poison Future” | REAL BLOOD “This Is Gonna Hurt” | RENATA ZEIGUER “Faraway Business” | SCRAP BRAIN “A Journey Into Madness” | WAND “Laughing Matter” | ZULA “Stepping”

M A Y :

FURTHER LISTENING:

AMYL & THE SNIFFERS “Amyl & The Sniffers” | CHRISTELLE BOFALE “Swim Team“ | CLINIC “Wheeltappers & Shunters” | DEHD “Water” | DRAHLA “Useless Coordinates” | EXHALANTS “…Trample The Cross Underfoot…” | THE GOTOBEDS “Debt Begins at 30” | HALFSOUR “Sticky” | LUNGBUTTER “Honey” | MIKE DONOVAN “Exurbian Quonset” | USA NAILS “Life Cinema”

J U N E :

FURTHER LISTENING:

A DEER A HORSE “Everything Rots That Is Rotten” | AVA LUNA “Pigments” | BAD BREEDING “Exiled” | BEAK> “Life Goes On” | BENCH PRESS “Not The Past, Can’t Be The Future” | CEREAL KILLER “The Beginning & End of Cereal Killer” | DROIDS BLOOD “Be Free” | DUMB “Club Nites” | GOLDEN PELICANS “Grinding for Gruel” | JEANINES “Jeanines” | KALEIDOSCOPE “After The Futures…” | MARBLEMOUTH “Nest” | SHELLAC “The End of Radio” | SKIN TAGS “Skin Tags” | WHELPWISHER “Good Fortune” | YOUR OLD DROOG “Transportation”

J U L Y :

FURTHER LISTENING:

ALL THE SAINTS “Look Like You’re Going Somewhere” | BIG K.R.I.T. “K.R.I.T. Iz Here” | IMMORTAL BIRD “Thrive On Neglect” | ISS “Alles 3rd Gut” | KNIFE WIFE “Family Party” | THE MAD DOCTORS “RIP” | TORCHE “Admission”

A U G U S T :

FURTHER LISTENING:

0 STARS “Blowing On A Marshmallow In Perpetuity” | BOOJI BOYS “Tube Reducer” | DAS DRIP “Das Drip” | FLORAL PRINT “Floral Print” | LUNCH LADY “Angel” | MAUNO “Really Well” | MULTICULT “Simultaneity Now” | OH SEES “Face Stabber” | POSSIBLE HUMANS “Everybody Split” | RUTH GARBUS “Kleinmeister” | SHOCK NARCOTIC “I Have Seen The Future And It Doesn’t Work”

S E P T E M B E R :

FURTHER LISTENING:

AMAR LAL “Gardening” | THE BERRIES “Berryland” | GHOSTFACE KILLAH “Ghostface Killahs” | GIRL BAND “The Talkies” | GLOOP “Smiling Lines” | KAPUTT “Carnage Hall” | THE MIND “Edge of the Planet” | SLUMP “Flashbacks from Black Dust Country” | SQUID “Town Centre”

O C T O B E R :

FURTHER LISTENING:

BLACK BEACH “Tapeworm” | DESERT SESSIONS “Vols. 11 & 12” | EXHALANTS “…And Draws A Crucifix Down His Arm…” | GOLD DIME “My House” | GONG GONG GONG “Phantom Rhythm” | HOMEBOY SANDMAN “Dusty” | NICE GUYS “Nice Guys” | PATTI “Good Big” | PROGRAM “Show Me” | SCREAMING FEMALES “Singles Too”

N O V E M B E R + D E C E M B E R :

FURTHER LISTENING:

ACTION BRONSON “Lamb Over Rice” | BLUE RAY “Live Laugh Love” | CATE LE BON & BRADFORD COX “Myths 004” | CZARFACE “The Odd Czar Against Us” | FERN MAYO “Week of Charm“ | THE FRAGILES “The Fragiles” | GANSER “You Must Be New Here” | GRISELDA “WWCD” | GUIDED BY VOICES “Sweating The Plague” | PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE “Up and Up” | RED DEATH “Sickness Divine” | RUSSIAN BATHS “Deepfake” | TREADLES “And The Rocks And The Trees And The Empty Air Between”