Post-Trash's Mid-Year Report 2024
Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: SUMAC - "The Healer"
The scope and grandeur of The Healer begs comparison to an epic novel or a film auteur’s masterpiece making it impossible to distill its essence into one catchy tagline. Which is the point. At 76 minutes, it’s oceanic, a leviathan of tones, tempos, and motifs which run the gamut of improvisational noise, sludge, meditative pastorals, and some straight-up heart-palpitating riffs.
Curiosity Vs Expectation: A Conversation with SUMAC’s Aaron Turner
With SUMAC’s fifth album, The Healer, arriving later this month via Thrill Jockey, Post-Trash took the opportunity to speak with Aaron Turner on the eve of the band’s upcoming tour. Our wide-ranging conversation is perhaps best framed as a discussion of aesthetic ontology in the digital age—what is art today and why still make it? For a band who routinely releases albums with hour-plus runtimes where individual songs are more akin to orchestral movements than traditional metal songs, these are questions worth exploring.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 3rd - June 9th)
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (April 1st - April 7th)
Further Listening: A Compendium | Year-End 2022 Feature
As anyone who reads our “Fuzzy Meadows” column already knows, the “list” is just the beginning, and we’re always eager to add some “Further Listening” for consideration. Despite what some would have you believe, music is not a contest. We profiled many records in our “Year In Review” feature, but the fun doesn’t stop there.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (September 12th - September 18th)
Sumac - "Two Beasts" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (November 30th - January 3rd)
Post-Trash's Best of 2020 | Staff Picks
Post-Trash's Best of 2020 | The Year In Review
The time to catch up on the unabridged Post-Trash “Year In Review” has arrived, with all the releases we’ve grown to know and love over the past twelve months, from the smallest of DIY tape releases to the buzz bands and beyond. It’s all here… mostly. This is our comprehensive guide to our favorite records of the year without a pre-determined length.
Sumac - "May You Be Held" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (September 21st - October 4th)
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 27th - August 2nd)
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 29th - July 5th)
The Stuck-At-Home "Bandcamp Day" Recommendation Extravaganza
Keiji Haino & Sumac - "Even for just the briefest moment / Keep charging this “expiation” / Plug in to making it slightly better" | Album Review
Returning not only to their incredibly long-winded album and track titles, but also to their improvisational, doom-steeped metal, Keiji Haino & SUMAC return with Even for just the briefest moment, an album split into four tracks, capturing the collaborators' behemothic live performance from Tokyo in 2017.
