Mo Dotti - "Blurring" EP | Post-Trash Premiere
L.A.’s Mo Dotti are a genuine shoegaze band, their sound reflective of the genre’s glory days. They have studied the classics, from songwriting to production. They’ve spent the past three years refining their approach, constructing and layering guitars with dreamy perfection, and everything falls right into place on their first EP, Blurring.
Options - "Faster" (Remix) | Post-Trash Premiere
In an unprecedented move, Chicago’s Options are sharing a remix of their song “Faster” before we’ve heard “Faster” in its original form. Its full of intrigue and mystery. While the source material is set to arrive on the latest Options album, Wind’s Gonna Blow, due out May 22nd, the remix is here and ready.
Pleaser - "Are You Listening To Me?" | Post-Trash Premiere
New York’s Pleaser is the duo of Carrie Furniss (ex-Birthing Hips) and Travis Hagan (halfsour), but knowing their previous work doesn’t really paint the picture that is their latest band. The pair go for a decidedly more electronic sound with Pleaser, a band that seemingly finds the pair influenced primarily by dating based reality shows.
The Duke of Surl - "Breakin'" (feat. Matt Gibbs) | Post-Trash Premiere
As In - "Not A Doctor, Not Today" | Post-Trash Premiere
The band is comprised of Emerson Stevens and Candace Clement, both formerly of Western Mass’ late great Bunny’s A Swine, a true staple of slop-rock for all eternity. The duo got together to make some new lo-fi music, recording on mics not recommended for recording, and generally giving it their signature best.
Jad Fair & Hifiklub - "Staying At Home" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Died - "Oja de Macao" | Post-Trash Premiere
Velvet Vaughan - "Sleep Walk" | Post-Trash Premiere
Born and raised in Nashville by a pair of notable session musicians, the story goes that Vaughan spent her years growing up around the city’s legendary country scene. Eventually moving to New York City for school, it was the memories of home that led Vaughan to start writing her own music, bringing a little Nashville twang to bustling city.
Dummy - "Dummy EP" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Los Angeles quintet has created a lush mix of shoegaze, krautrock, noise pop, and everything else that is both hazy and dreamy. Dummy take an almost meditative drift toward motorik composition, easing their way into swells of minimalist layering, vocals that blend together, and grandoise blankets of noise.
Black Beach - "Broken Computer" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Half a year later and the band are sharing a video from the album for “Broken Computer,” one of the album’s many highlights. Directed by James Wells, it’s a vibrant animation that picks up on much of the single’s own tension, as globs of paint mutate and shift from human to other with broad strokes of color and wormholes.
Thank - "Fragile Ego (Rehearsal)" | Post-Trash Premiere
London’s Modern Technology have started a new record label, Human Worth, and they’re set to launch with an eponymous compilation, Human Worth Vol. 1. The collection revels in a particular brand of explosive sludge and primal noise rock, the sound that seems to ooze from the UK underground in abundance.
Geronimo! - "Where's My Dini?" (Ovlov cover) | Post-Trash Premiere
Attic Salt Records is a new label based out of Chicago with a focus on artists and charity. As a “benefit” label, the proceeds of their releases are all being given to charities as selected by the musicians they are working with. Compilation 1, includes Geronimo!, Stuck, Sunny Falls, Options, Thanks For Coming, Nate Amos, Gilt Drip, and more.
Divorce Cop - "My Other Shirt Is..." LP | Post-Trash Premiere
After a set of promising EPs and singles released last year, the band are ready to share their full length debut, My Other Shirt Is — Actually Never Mind, It’s The Shirt I Have On Here., due out this coming Friday, May 1st. With eight of the eleven tracks clocking in under a minute (the other three not extending much past that), it’s a quick listen.
This Is Lorelei - "Sick Twist" | Post-Trash Premiere
Noun - "Drag" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Built around songwriting depth and less about shredding, Noun songs tend to be more lo-fi, capturing an intimacy in Marissa Paternoster’s (Screaming Females) voice and minimalist compositions. “Drag” has been brought to life with a new recording, fleshed out and appearing on a brand new three song picture disc via Let’s Pretend Records.
Br'er - "Fugue State" | Post-Trash Premiere
Boiling Hell - "Fluff" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
This week Ryan Naray (Fond, Animal Faces) will release his debut solo album as Boiling Hell, a self-recorded full length of lo-fi post-hardcore and fuzz punk burners that really digs into what we’ve come to know and love from his songs. Fluff, due out on Art of the Uncarved Block, is a fun record built on great chord progressions.
S. Rich - "Headfirst Bones" (feat. Candace Clement) | Post-Trash Premiere
For the past decade Samuel Rich (Miniboone, Bully Mammoth) has been playing varying styles of noisy rock from groovy post-punk to psychedelic noise rock. With his first solo album, he’s offering a change of pace and a wealth of atmosphere. Trading in his trusty bass for an organ, his solo debut Organ Versions, is due out April 21st.
