“Chill Pill” is the coldest and sharpest track on Glaswegian quartet Dancer’s latest EP, As Well. The video is no more warm than the song itself. In 1.5x speed and interspersed with blasts of a lo-fi painting filter, Gemma Fleet tromps around like a disaffected teenager kicking pebbles at flocks of sheep.
Access to the Lonely is certainly aggressive, but it lashes in a way that’s too carefully considered to be pure rage. Sure, “Libertarian Noise Rock” flies off the handle, with a shredding 80s thrash metal guitar solo from World Below’s Alex Cheskis, but many of the album’s best moments are more patient.
Following a great record with The Beta Blockers and the subsequent Bugs!, the time has come for Immaturity, out November 3rd via Feel It / FatCat Records. A fixture of Indiana’s punk scene and beyond, Erik Nervous is back doing his thing, marking a new level of achievement for his animated post-punk and power-pop squalor.
Zoë Wyner has been busy writing for Zowy, a new solo project. Taking shape over the past year, Beware Magical Thinking is the first release under the new moniker, due out January 12th via Lost Sound Tapes. The project finds Wyner handling all the instrumentation, with a vision that feels beautifully nuanced.
Throughout their debut album, Queen Serene sound fully realized, dipping between dream pop, post-punk, krautrock, shoegaze, and fuzzy indie rippers, each song offering something new. There’s cohesion in spades, but the self-titled record feels like an unraveling of ideas, expanding as it plays, providing a welcome sense of dynamics.
See Jazz is decidedly not jazz, but reality does feel augmented throughout Is This Anything?, the debut album from Aaron Pfannebecker’s solo project. With a sound rooted in bedroom pop, See Jazz is wandering beyond the walls of confessional and dreary pop to create lo-fi music with a sense of adventure.
Age, out January 26th via Moone Records and Anxiety Blanket Records, is an album transfixed on life’s changes, a farewell to the one’s past self and an appraisal of where life’s lemons have left him. While the path of his life is obviously deeply personal, Dailey isn’t alone throughout the record, bringing some stalwart musicians along for the journey..
Infinite Hatch is a major statement of a record, the duo of Marance and Urq showing incredible growth while remaining true to their sound and vision. One of the year’s more exciting albums, each song a piece of the greater whole, capturing the band’s acidic knack for unlikely melodies together with their immaculate sense of personality.
Post-Trash is very pleased to present Winded’s music video for "Heaven is Leaking" from last year's breathtaking EP, Schwartz Provides. Winded's track record of mixing a bit of jangly and earnest sentiment with a crushing sense of despair and intense self-reflection always provides quite a wild ride through a gamut of feelings and states of mind.
Bungler, the Philadelphia based solo project of Paul Hewes (Snoozer, Idiot Forever), has amassed a large catalog of home-spun indie over the past seven years, balancing fuzzy slacker rock with weary hooks. He’s back again with Light In The Corner, a brilliant new record for Strange Mono (Sandcastle, Ruah, Webb Chapel).
Just in time for Halloween, Raleigh’s Jenny Besetzt are sharing a brand new music video for “Nite Terrors,” a haunting focal point of their recent album, Goner. Released during the height of summer via Self Aware Records (Amanda X, Myriads), the band’s knack for 80’s post-punk at its most romantic end is full of cinematic plumage.
Chicago’s Cel Ray already released Cellular Raymond, one of our absolute favorite EPs of the year back in February, and as the well deserved hype around the band continues to grow, they’re getting ready to release another one. Piss Park, their new EP, is due out November 17th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records.
The construction of the trio’s interwoven brand of post-hardcore is brilliant throughout their second album, Making Sounds For Andy. Due out November 17th via Human Worth, Beige Palace’s upcoming album finds the band pushing their songs to sparse limits, every note and beat resonating to its full potential.
SWiiMS continue to evolve their sound with their upcoming album Into The Blue Night. Along with their excellent instrumentalism comes tracks drenched in thoughtful songwriting, leaving listeners to want more. Mai Diaz Langou notes it’s about: "the beginning stages of a relationship - how you try to make yourself more intriguing”.
Sunk Heaven returns with the next full length, Off-White Colosseum, due out October 24th via Hot Releases. Recorded during a residency at Pioneer Works, it’s a record that feels both mechanical and immediate, where things are rarely as they seem, and the claustrophobic nature of the recording is matched with equal parts wonder.
Miracle Sweepstakes continue to grow their sound with their upcoming album, Last Licks, due out October 27th via their own One Weird Trick. Recorded in drummer Ian Miniero’s Long Island basement, the band embrace indie rock, psych, and breezy jangle pop on a record that’s prone to shift unexpectedly from song to song.
