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Camp Counselor - "Cotton Mouth" | Post-Trash Premiere

Camp Counselor - "Cotton Mouth" | Post-Trash Premiere

Camp Counselor is ready to release another EP, Scabs, due out January 15th via It Takes Time Records. Their songs are personal and bare, with an emotional tone that never hides itself in production or abstraction on an EP that deals with “letting your wounds heal and leaving behind the ones you no longer need.”

Great Deceivers - "Checked Out Forever" | Post-Trash Premiere

Great Deceivers - "Checked Out Forever" | Post-Trash Premiere

The long-running band (whose members also play in C.H.E.W., Options, etc.) have a dynamic sound that feels compact and dense, carefully constructed and ready to burst upon exposure. There’s a painstaking quality to the way each song is built, the guitars weaving between rhythmic heft that’s somewhere between crushing and dreamy (often in both territories at once).

Blue Ray - "OGFIL" EP | Post-Trash Premiere

Blue Ray - "OGFIL" EP | Post-Trash Premiere

Set to release OGFIL at the tail end of the year via Super Wimpy Punch Records, their latest is a shift in delivery, though a slight one. Instead of the band’s usual approach to letting the vocals peak way into the red with yelps and carefree ramshackle melodies, Johnny Steines opts for a story-telling approach, weaving colorful observations and an active sense of humor into spoken word.

Lrrr / Maxshh - "Thank You Lrrr, You're Welcome Maxshh" EP | Post-Trash Premiere

Lrrr / Maxshh - "Thank You Lrrr, You're Welcome Maxshh" EP | Post-Trash Premiere

Their latest offering, a split tape between drummer Max (Maxshh) and guitarist/ vocalist Skyler (Lrrr) of Tundrastomper is endearingly called Thank You Lrrr, You’re Welcome Maxshh, and is a collection of songs written and recorded by both artists in the winter of 2014.

Bedbug - "The Book of Love" (The Magnetic Fields cover) | Post-Trash Premiere

Bedbug - "The Book of Love" (The Magnetic Fields cover) | Post-Trash Premiere

Boston’s Bedbug, who released a tremendous lo-fi indie album of their own at the start of the year, bring their own flavor to the cover, a faithful rendition that reimagines the song with experimental reverb and ramshackle production, the whole thing threatening to sink in on itself at any moment.

David Vassalotti - "The Lines Between Us" | Post-Trash Premiere

David Vassalotti - "The Lines Between Us" | Post-Trash Premiere

Three exhausting years since Broken Rope, Vassalotti returns with Guitar Dream, his second album for the ever influential Wharf Cat Records. This time around, he has a new focused vision, adapting the softened post-punk of his main project (Merchandise) to his own songwriting nuances.

halfsour - "Left My Hair In Detroit" | Post-Trash Premiere

halfsour - "Left My Hair In Detroit" | Post-Trash Premiere

For Boston’s halfsour, their new single “Left My Hair In Detroit” is the end of an era and a passage toward the future. The song is the final recording to feature the band’s former drummer Ian Gustafson as well as the last song for the foreseeable future to feature Matt Mara on lead vocals.