Half Stack - "I Might Try" | Post-Trash Premiere
Half Stack return with Sitting Pretty, their third full length, due out October 6th via Forged Artifacts and Royal Oakie Records, capturing feelings of isolation and the need to reconnect. With clean guitars, easy progressions, harmonized vocals, and dips into power-pop bliss, the band continue to evolve in real time.
Prewn - "But I Want More" | Post-Trash Premiere
Izzy Hagerup (aka Prewn) spent the pandemic writing and fleshing out songs, challenging herself in the seclusion of the studio to expand her ideas. The results are staggeringly beautiful and triumphantly visceral. Those sessions arrive as Through The Window, a solo record that brings her songs to life with a uniquely personal touch.
Gentle Heat - "Myth" | Post-Trash Premiere
With a shift in the line-up forthcoming, Gentle Heat come together to create Trick, an EP that maps where they’ve been as much as it highlights where they’re headed. Due out September 8th, the songs approach shoegaze with a swarming pop quality, more concerned with rhythmic pulses and swooning hooks than layered distortion.
Rong - "Coincidence" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Just in time for their on-going tour with Sea Moss, Rong return with a split EP together with Massachusetts’ The Cost Ov Living, released via Mutual Aid Records. The songs are brutal and sludgy at times, piercing with distortion as they break into a sprint, the whole thing always threatening to collapse, but instead shifting directions mid collision.
Slow Salvation - "Decay" | Post-Trash Premiere
Slow Salvation may appear a new band, but the project has deep roots in the shoegaze/dream pop world. The band’s songwriter/producer Travis Trevisan is the sole permanent member of shoegaze stalwarts Tape Deck Mountain, while singer Christina Hernandez has her own ethereal electro-pop project Orion Lake.
Puppy Problems - "Rainbow Flag" | Post-Trash Premiere
Today marks the triumphant return of Puppy Problems and the announcement of their second album, Winter In Fruitland. Due out September 22nd via Anything Bagel Records, Sami Martasian and co. recorded the album at Big Nice Studio, and while there’s definitely an upgrade in fidelity, the heart in the songs remains ever apparent.
It Thing - "P.C.H" | Post-Trash Premiere
Melbourne via Hobart quartet It Thing recently announced Constant State / P.C.H, the much anticipated follow-up to their excellent 2021 debut Syrup. Out now via Marthouse Records (AU) and Feel It Records (US), the band come burning out the gate with their signature chaotic energy, but more importantly, their sound is glued in massive hooks.
Florry - "Drunk And High" | Post-Trash Premiere
Me Lost Me - "Heat!" | Post-Trash Premiere
Jayne Dent’s experimental folk project Me Lost Me has been blending traditional instrumentation with electronic drones and playful art pop since the mid 2010s. On RPG, she aims to pay tribute to the art of world-building and storytelling, drawing a throughline from folk songs and folktales to ambient electronica and video games.
Faunas - "Waxing Moon" | Post-Trash Premiere
With six years separating Faunas’ debut and Paint The Birds, it would seem nearly everything about the project has changed. While the duo remains the same - Genevieve Ludwig and Erin McCarley - their sound has taken a major shift, pulling away from the sludgy punk of their debut and moving toward a sound more in tune with folk music.
Silicone Prairie - "Serpent in the Grass" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Silicone Prairie debut set a strange benchmark, an album that felt like brilliantly scattered thoughts brought to life, and things are only getting (delightfully) weirder on Vol. II. Due out July 28th via Feel It Records (It Thing, Sweeping Promises, Private Lives), it’s the type of album where anything feels possible.
Porcelain - "C.O.A." | Post-Trash Premiere
The quartet of Ryan Fitzgibbon (US Weekly), Eli Deitz (Dregs, Votive), Steve Pike (Exhalants, CSSS), and Jordan Emmert (Super Thief, Pleasure Venom) bring a great deal of experience together from different pockets of the city’s noise rock and punk scene, the pieces coming together to create something better than the sum of it’s parts.
Landowner - "Beyond The Darkened Library" | Post-Trash Premiere
“Beyond The Darkened Library” is one of the album’s more subdued moments, yet the unnerving energy that Landowner posses is in full force, bleeping and blooping in a way we’d swear was computer driven, yet all praise is due to Dan Shaw, Josh Owsley (bass), Elliot Hughes (guitar), Jeff Gilmartin (guitar), and Josh Daniel (drums).
Water Machine - "Water Machine Pt. II" | Post-Trash Premiere
It’s pretty important to drink a lot of water. It would seem to be a core principle for Glasgow’s Water Machine, one reinforced with art-punk immediacy. Following the band’s self-released demo, the quartet are set to make their “studio” debut with the Raw Liquid Power EP, due out August 4th via Upset The Rhythm
TEKE::TEKE - "Hoppe" | Post-Trash Premiere
TEKE::TEKE are just getting started, as their upcoming second album, Hagata, takes their already maximalist sound and continues to dig outward. Due out this Friday via Kill Rock Stars, the band sound delightfully unhinged throughout, getting weird and funky, merging disparate sounds at their whim with an orchestrated focus.
Coffin Prick - "Laughing" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
At some point Ryan Weinstein’s band Coffin Pricks became the singular Coffin Prick, the project adapting from a band to a solo effort. Weinstein approached his solo debut with patience, building a world unto itself, where vast psychedelic synths are paired together with space-age guitars and a general alien atmosphere.
The Lentils - "Easy On The Shadow Work" | Post-Trash Premiere
Matt Robidoux - "Escalator From Dreamworld" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Robidoux returns with Music For Aluminum Corn, a record composed around his very own corn synth, an instrument built with two touch-controlled aluminum corn cobs. Due out on June 23rd via Crash Symbols, he gives focus to his home-made synth while incorporating manipulated flutes, strings, saxophone, field recordings, and electronic rhythms.
