Bethlehem Steel - "Docking" | Album Review
Led by Becca Ryskalczyk, the recently transplanted Brooklyn-based band have generated a handful of songs checkered with fuzz, soft vocal melody, punctuating bass, and sinuous drums. The sometimes quivering, sometimes belting voice of Ryskalczyk maintains a sense of order and control over the ever-shifting dynamic.
Off Drugs - "Headline" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Deerhoof - "Fever 121614" | Album Review
Recorded and filmed live in Tokyo, Deerhoof’s Fever 121614 is a multimedia offering (video & audio) that, in 40 minutes, compacts 10+ years of music into a tightly tailored, 12 track live set. It’s the perfect intro into Deerhoof’s expansive and eccentric discography for a new listener, and a brilliant reminder to old fans why this band is so, so important.
Kal Marks - "Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies" | Album Review
Life is Alright, Everybody Dies is a complex beast, and one that requires numerous listens to fully engage. Kal Marks are making a brand of catharsis rock that seems content being deeply isolated from a wider audience -- it’d be a stretch to say that Shane wants everyone to understand what he’s created. This benefits Kal Marks though, as they’re one of the bands that make their name finding a middle ground between relatability and extraordinary talent.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week In Review (February 15th - February 21st)
Sauna Youth - "Distractions" | Album Review
Rick Rude - "Sap" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
The beginning of “Sap” combines a jangly guitar line with a constantly driving drum line and relentlessly building anthemic vocal tone, only to crash back down to the opening progression and build again. The cyclical nature of “Sap” keeps it well within a pop sphere and functions to build the song’s deep playability – indeed “Sap” performs best on loop accompanied by a beer or four.
Pigs - "Wronger" | Album Review
Wronger, released late last year, is the band's second full-length and, like its predecessor, it is full of the gravelly noise rock that its members are known for making throughout their careers. Comparisons to those earlier projects, along with bands like Atlanta's Whores or Athens, GA's Jucifer will surely abound, but what sets PIGS apart from their brethren is how much more they are.
Cherry - "Gloom" EP | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
If you’ve been following underground indie rock in Philadelphia lately, you’ll get a good sense of the psych-bedroom pop dished out on Cherry’s Gloom. The plaintive vocal delivery evokes fellow City of Brotherly Love brethren Gunk and Sun Organ (also ex-Kite Party). The melodies are simple but affecting; the song arrangements wouldn’t sound out of place on a Mikal Cronin record.
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - "Jesu/Sun Kil Moon" | Album Review
While this collaborative effort between post-metal shoegazers Jesu and confessional crooner Sun Kil Moon doesn’t quite creep its way toward words like masterpiece or classic, it is an impressively rich and engaging musical experiment – a coalescence of disparate sensibilities that form something new, if not entirely unique.
Running - "Wake Up Applauding" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week In Review (February 8th - February 14th)
Footings - "Alienation" LP | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Kid Mountain - "Walk Around" + "Curtains" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Future Of The Left - "The Limits of Battleships" | Track Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week In Review (February 1st - February 7th)
Lantern - "Happy" | Featured Video
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - "Love Me Denver" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
"Love Me Denver," the second single from the upcoming wonderfully titled album Burritos by BBDDM. A song for the morning after that showcases what they do so well. Layers upon layers that create an ethereal feeling. The vocals buried so deep in the mix that the words tend to be lost, but the sound and feeling of them are not, each member harmonizing together to create their signature sound.
Porches - "Pool" | Album Review
The third full-length output from Aaron Maine as Porches, his first for Domino Records, is among other things, a noted departure from Slow Dance in the Cosmos. On Pool, Maine, and by extension the band, trade warm rock for a far colder sound – mostly eschewing live drums and guitars and instead working primarily with a varied palate of bass tones and synthesizers.