Sprain put out their debut album in September of 2020, a bleak and grinding affair that mostly consisted of angular riffs, crawling tempos, and walls of feedback. While the pandemic kept them from touring upon its release, as restrictions eased, they toured the US, all the while working on their follow-up The Lamb as Effigy, which is out September 1st via The Flenser. Alex Kent spoke to Post-Trash about the album and the process behind it.
Rick Froberg, vocalist and guitarist of San Diego post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, died Friday June 30th at age 55. As the tributes have come pouring in, it’s clear Froberg had an outsized influence on modern guitar music. While this piece is a tribute to Froberg, it’s also a personal reckoning with a musician who in many ways was a cypher of my own lived experience.
Yesterday was that day I’ve been waiting for. I saw Unwound live for the first time in my life. With expectations unreasonably high, the band laid waste to those lofty expectations, furiously locked in and sounding as though they never stepped away over two decades ago. This is a letter to say thanks.
Bad History Month rewards patience, in just about every sense of the word. It's been three years since Sean Bean released new music and four years since his last full-length with Fat History Month, but for those who have been patiently waiting, the end of that recorded silence has finally arrived in the paralyzing existentialism of Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism.
